Kin Groups and Descent. There are some fifteen totemic, matrilineal, and dispersed clans (pu). Subclans (pughi) share exogamy with one or more linked subclans of different clans. The members of subclans do not all reside in the same area but there are local subclan sections. A more loose cognatic category (yo) denotes the bilateral descendants of an ancestor or the bilateral kindred of a person.
Kinship Terminology. The terminology system is classificatory and of the Crow type, with alternate-generation terminology in one's own (male speaking) and one's father's line (both sexes speaking).