If a divorced man dies, custody of any male children passes to his clan group.
To maintain its dependence on and loyalty to the crown, the position was forbidden to the leaders of the clan groups.
After a season in dispersed clan groups, there's the chance to share news, trade, and renew friendships both within and across ethnic lines.
Colonel Flocke said the camps would be organized and settled according to clan groups.
Within each country, people lived in clan groups: extended families defined by various forms of Australian Aboriginal kinship.
However, civil war caused ethnicity (or ethnic affiliation) to be redefined according to "clan" groups.
Small mud houses with conical thatch or tin roofs make up their villages, which are organized on the basis of the clan groups.
The lakinyerar in turn comprised 77 clan (family) groups in the 1930s, each with its own distinct dialect.
The Mission attracted aboriginal people from eastern clan groups to the island.
These vernacular structures were occupied by clan groups.