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names are derived. The colors are indicated by their initials (R, 

 red; I, indigo; etc.). A capital letter means that the color was 

 designated by the name of the object at the head of its column in the 

 majority of cases, or (for Y, I and V) by considerable groups of the 

 subjects; a small letter means that the color was so designated less 

 often, sometimes by a single subject. Rivers has, unfortunately, 

 not stated these results in numerical form. A -}- or — sign after a 

 letter means that the color name was modified by " big " or " little " ; 

 thus, o — means that orange was called "little blood-blood" by a 

 few subjects; p+ means that purple was called "big blood-blood" 

 by (as it happens) one man. 



I have included in the table all but two of the color names em- 

 ployed. BG was called " dirty yellow-ochre " as well as " little yel- 

 low-ochre " ; I have not thought it worth while to make a separate 

 column for this compound form. V was called blood-white, if kake- 

 kakck means white ; I return to this case presently. 



Let us now look at the distribution of the color-names, taking the 

 column of the table as unit. Then 



