1920.] Lowie, Crow Tobacco Society. 199 



which the Crow stem for 'tobacco' appears is, as might be expected, 

 Hidatsa (ope). For example, the Assiniboin term is team, the Biloxi 

 yant, and among the Stoney I recorded indukdbi. The Shoshoneans of 

 the Great Basin probably did not cultivate tobacco at all, and such 

 designations for the plant smoked as are at my disposal reveal no sug- 

 gestion of affinity with the Crow-Hidatsa term. On the other hand, 

 astonishing resemblances occur in the Pacific Coast region. Here we 

 find the Diegueno term up, Shasta dp, Takelma o u p. ] It is hardly 

 conceivable that we are here dealing with a mere coincidence, but hitherto 

 I have failed to find the links connecting the Shasta with the Crow. An 

 examination of vocabularies from tribes of Oregon and Idaho is desir- 

 able. The fact that the Hidatsa share the Crow term for tobacco indi- 

 cates that the contact with the Far West antedates their separation. 

 The specific difference of the tobacco now raised by the Hidatsa offers 

 no obstacle since they may be assumed to have subsequently adopted 

 the plant raised by the Mandan and Arikara. 



''Sapir, 70. 



