The ancient Mexican tribe was composed of twenty autonomous kins.
2
The human commensals were the totem-kin, whom Robertson Smith conceived to have been in the habit of sharing a common meal in daily life, or at least of not mixing with other kins.
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In a little more than a century, however, the Kins were driven out of China by the Mongols under Jenghiz Khan.
4
In ancient society certain animals, plants, kins, families, were also holy and bound up with the god by blood-ties or otherwise.
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These rites are common in North America, but are worked by members of gilds or societies, not by totem kins.