Black Cockatoo (Wila) is in Kroki; in Kumi is Black Crestless Cockatoo (Karaal).
In the same way, in the now extinct Mount Gambier tribe, the phratries are Kumi and Kroki.
The heads of the households composing a Kumi elected one of their number as chief,--who became the responsible representative of all the members of the Kumi.
If any other kumi neglects to do this, it will be part of our duty to do it for them .
As members of a kumi we will cultivate friendly feeling even more than with our relatives, and will promote each other's happiness, as well as share each other's griefs.
The general number of households in a Kumi was five; but there were in some provinces Kumi consisting of six, and of ten, households.
The kumi was accountable for the conduct of each and all of its members; and each member was in some sort responsible for the rest.
Each kumi [group of five households] shall carefully watch over the conduct of its members, so as to prevent wrongdoing.
If any one violates these regulations, without due excuse, he is to be punished; and his kumi will also be held responsible.
To superior authority theKumi was responsible, not the single household.
Kumi looked at Dorlan puzzled as to what question it was that was pressing for a settlement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kumi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
