Chiefship Sentence Examples

As in some other Pacific islands, when a son is born the chiefship passes to him, but the father continues to govern as regent.

While Dost Mahommed held Kabul, Kandahar became temporarily a sort of independent chiefship under two or three of his brothers.

A decisive " moment " in the evolution of chiefship is the recognition of hereditary mana, bound up as this is with the handing on of ceremonies and cult-objects.

Chiefship is quite unrecognized, except on the Keriwina Islands.