Finally, any man who had achieved renown and prestige or was the leader of a camp group, was known as a "chief," for the lack of institutionalization and formalization of the office made its tenure most nebulous.
"Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society"
Robert F. Murphy Yolanda Murphy
It was a device set up in the orthodox churches as a definite formalization of a creed.
"The Madonna in Art"
Estelle M. Hurll