It contradicts the myth of a few obscure tribes about to be uprooted by Chinese expansion.

It had been a documentary about some obscure African tribe.

The lecture reads like an explanation of customs to a guest of an obscure primitive tribe.

They're from some obscure tribe in north-western Ethiopia.

A retired general and a lawyer scheme to take possession of Nebraska on behalf of an obscure Indian tribe.

Jup tied a rusty-red bandanna around his neck, the emblem of an obscure and distant tribe.

The overall effect is exotic, as though she were a beautiful priestess of some obscure tribe.

A small minority of an obscure tribe on the Vaxus colony.

Cyrus II is killed in war against obscure tribes.

-religions which brought obscure tribes to world power, and shook older dominions to their roots, in a single generation.