clan-head

Updated: May 18, 2025

At once, the silent boy found himself talking intimately, and the artist found himself studying one of the strangest human paradoxes he had yet seen. In a cove, or lowland pocket, stretching into the mountainside, lay the small and meager farm of the Widow Miller. The Widow Miller was a "South"; that is to say she fell, by tie of marriage, under the protection of the clan-head.

Charles Neville Buck - The Call of the Cumberlands