Kinship Term Systems

1. Bifurcate Merging: Unilineal Descent Groups

Patrilineal Descent: Iroquois: Omaha
Parallel and Cross Cousins

2. Bifurcate Merging: Unilineal Descent Groups

Matrilineal Descent: Iroquois: Crow
 Parallel and Cross Cousins
 

3. Generational: Some Cognatic Descent Groups

Hawaiian
 

4. Lineal: Common among bands, kindreds, nuclear families

Eskimo