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SYSTEMS OF CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY 



lence of the nomenclature is such as to favor this supposition. This is one of the 

 questions with reference to the Spokane system that remains to be determined. It 

 will be impossible to understand this remarkable form until it is more fully devel- 

 oped in its details, and its unascertained parts are procured. The system of the 

 remainin"- Salish nations is also desirable, since some of them may not have adopted 

 the refinements the Spokane displays, and may, therefore, be nearer the primitive 

 form. Notwithstanding the imperfect presentation of the Spokane system about 

 to be made, it will not be difiicult to discover decisive traces of the common sys- 

 tem of the family. 



In Mengarini's " Selish, or Flathead" Grammar, before referred to, he has col- 

 lected the terms of relationship of the Flatheads, and given them with their Latin 

 equivalents. They do not shoAV the classification of consanguinei and marriage 

 relations, which is the essential part of the system, and the use of some of the 

 terms will probably be found to need correction ; but the terms show the fuhicss 

 of the nomenclature, and being in another dialect, may be useful to illustrate the 

 Spokane forra.^ Some of them will be referred to in connection with the corre- 

 sponding terms in the Spokane. 



* "Duo relationes, Kene et eh'chioz, sunt etiam relativae nepotibua (les petits 

 duobus se invicem appellent." 



), ita ut avise et nepotes hia 



