Thus the Tupa clan are collected about the village of Teplagarh in Patna State, the Loa clan round Sindhekala, the Borga clan round Bangomunda and so on.

The Nunias of Mirzapur, Mr.Crooke remarks, [174] have a system of local subdivisions called _dih_, each subdivision being named after the village which is supposed to be its home.

The word _dih_ itself means a site or village.

Those who have the same _dih_ do not intermarry.

In the villages first settled by the Oraons, Father Dehon states, [175] the population is divided into three _khunts_ or branches, the founders of the three branches being held to have been sons of the first settler.