The phrase "about a tribe of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific group of people or a community that shares common cultural, social, or historical characteristics.
Example: "The documentary is about a tribe of indigenous people living in the Amazon rainforest."
Alternatives: "regarding a group of" or "concerning a community of".
It was about a tribe of monkeys who live on the rooftops of Jodhpur.
If you are writing about a tribe of people – in our case, the upper classes – you need to immerse yourself in them.
Writer talked with Caroline Stanley-Millson, who told her about a tribe of people she had discovered in the jungle of southern India who until a few years ago lived in trees.
He then showed us, on a computer, a documentary called "Warriors of the Monkey God". It was about a tribe of monkeys who live on the rooftops of Jodhpur.
Rich men have always got away with producing bastards as long as they picked up the tab; condemnations of bastardy are usually prompted by concern about a tribe of bastards having to be raised "on the parish".
It's a story based on a Buddhist legend about a tribe of monkeys that decide to go on a diet, but find that they simply cannot stay away from bananas.
Continuation of REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dodoth, a tribe of pastoralists some twenty thousand in number, who live in the Lokoki district of Uganda.
By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas The New Yorker, May 15 , 1965P. 61 Continuation of REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dodoth, a tribe of pastoralists some twenty thousand in number, who live in the Lokoki district of Uganda.
Set in Mongolia, "Camel" mixes some recreated scenes with documentary film about the lives of a tribe of shepherds, whose livelihood -- based on raising animals -- is being slowly eliminated.
(The sandy white calf would make a fabulous model for plush toys.) Set in Mongolia, "Camel" mixes some recreated scenes with documentary footage about the lives of a tribe of shepherds, whose livelihood -- based on raising animals -- is being slowly eliminated.
In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several months with the Matsigenka, a tribe of about twelve thousand people who live in the Peruvian Amazon.
