 The wife, her children, and her descendants in the female line would in perpetuity be linked to the destinies of her own tribe, while the husband, his brother, and sisters and the descendants of the latter in the female line would in like manner be united to another tribe and led by its affinities. Herein was a bond of union between the several tribes of the same nation, corresponding in some degree with the cross-relationship founded upon consanguinity, which bound together the tribes of the same emblem in the different nations.