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We have now followed our British Columbia Indians through 
an ascending series of groupings, from the individual family to the 
genealogical family or “house”, then successively to the village com- 
munity, the clan, and finally, among the northern tribes, the phratry. 
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A Ilaida woman, with noso-iiii^j; and lahret. (Photo hy R. Mdijiiard.) 
Let US examine these phratries more closely among their three 
principal adherents, the Tlinkit, the Haida, and the Tsimshian. 
The two former recognized only two phratries, the Tsimshian four. 
