ABSTRACT
The two major links between clans are first, the reciprocal relation of being ritual partners to each other and secondly, the relation between clans that are parent and filial clan to each other. Clans that are ritual partners are often contiguous and always near to each other; consequently the giving of assistance in burial ceremonies is an easy matter. When a clan is segmented into two major lineages, each major lineage regards the other as ritual partner. The affinal kin of the dead man are represented, sometimes by persons who themselves stand in no known relation of kinship to the dead man or to members of his major lineage. The majority of fights between clans begin in a quarrel between two men over a woman. A husband who catches a man in flagrante delicto with his wife strikes out with the first weapon to hand.
