MICHELSON: notes on the fox INDIANS 483 



indication as to when Mendelian behavior, as opposed to matro- 

 cHny or patrocliny, is to be expected. 



VII. The production of mut. nummularia, which is never 

 thrown by the strain which gives rise to revolute-leaved muta- 

 tions, is shown to be due to mutation in the a portion of the a 

 gamete, but nevertheless dependent for its expression upon the 

 presence of the Mendehan factor F for flatness. It may be re- 

 called that mut. nummularia shows matroclinic inheritance in 

 crosses with the parent form, the fact which proves the first 

 part of this proposition. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. — Some general notes on the Fox Indians. 

 Part I. Historical. Truman Michelson, Bureau of 

 American Ethnology.^ 



1 have assembled here a number of miscellaneous notes on 

 the Fox Indians. The inclusion of bibliographies is justified on 

 the score that recent writers seem to have been totally ignorant 

 of published sources of information on these Indians. 



THE NATIVE NAME FOR "FOXES," AND SYNONYMY 



The native name for "Foxes" is Me'ckwA'ki' Ag*"'^ which means 

 "Red- Earths." A good synonymy will be found at the end of 

 the article Fox in the Handbook of American Indians.^ To this 

 the following may be added: Meskwa'kihAgV Meckwa'kihAg'.^ 

 Meckwa'kihAgV Meskwa"ki'AgV Meckwa'ki'Ag',^ Me'ckwA'ki- 

 Ag''*'.^ Musquaquas, ^° Musquakas,^^ Mesquakie,^^ Meskwakis,^^ 



' Printed with permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



2 MiCHELSON. Information, 1917. 

 ' Bur. Amer. Ethnol. Bull. 30. 



* WiLWAM Jones. Fox Texts, passim. 



^ Jones. Ibidem, passim. / 



^ Jones. Ibidem: 10.7; misprint? 

 ^ Jones. Handbook of American Indian Languages, Pt. 1:741, 



* MiCHELSON. Current Anthropological Literature, 2: 22)^. |*"' 

 ^ MiCHELSON. Information, 191 7. 



^<' Annals of Iowa, 1870: 366. 



" Ibidem, 363. 



1^ Mesquakie Booster. 



13 Iowa Journal of History and Politics, 4: 191. 



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