Wolf clan

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The Wolf clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation matrilineal clans, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Wolf clan canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cayuga Nation clan
Haudenosaunee clan
matrilineal clan
associatedWithCulture Haudenosaunee
Haudenosaunee
surface form: Iroquois
associatedWithNation Cayuga nation
surface form: Cayuga Nation
followsDescentRule matrilineal descent
hasFunction defining kinship obligations
organizing social relations
structuring marriage rules
hasKinshipPrinciple clan membership inherited from the mother
hasMembershipRule children belong to their mother’s clan
hasRole kinship group within Cayuga Nation
social group within Cayuga Nation
hasSocialSignificance basis for mutual support among members
framework for ceremonial responsibilities
identity marker for Cayuga people
isElementOf Haudenosaunee longhouse social structure
isMatrilinealIn Cayuga nation
surface form: Cayuga Nation
isRecognizedBy Cayuga nation
surface form: Cayuga traditional governance
languageContext Cayuga language
partOf Cayuga nation
surface form: Cayuga Nation

Cayuga clan system
Haudenosaunee
surface form: Haudenosaunee Confederacy clan system

Haudenosaunee clan system
sharesClanSystemWith Bear clan
Turtle clan
other Cayuga clans
usesClanAnimalSymbol wolf

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cayuga hasClan Wolf clan
Onondaga clansInclude Wolf clan
Laxgibuu (Wolf) hasAlternativeName Wolf clan
subject surface form: Laxgibuu