(n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.

allegory ancestral spirits angel animal kingdom ashram attendant godling blood body breed brood caste charactery cipher clan class colony commonwealth commune community control conventional symbol daemon deme demon economic class emblem endogamous group extended family fairy godmother familiar familiar spirit family folk genius genius domus genius loci gens good angel good genius guardian guardian angel guardian spirit guide house household gods iconology ideogram invisible helper kind kinship group lares and penates lares compitales lares familiaris lares permarini lares praestites lares viales line lineage logogram logotype love knot manes matriclan ministering angel moiety nation nuclear family numen order patriclan penates people phratria phratry phyle pictogram plant kingdom race sept settlement social class society special providence species stem stirps stock strain subcaste symbol symbolic system symbolism symbolization symbology token totem pole tribe tutelar god tutelary type