OF THE HUMAN FAMILY. 191 



Second. My sister's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my nephew and niece. 

 With Ego a female, they are my son and daughter. 



Third. My father's brother is my father. 



Fourth. My father's brother's son and daughter are my brother and sister, 

 elder or younger. 



Fifth. My father's sister is my aunt, with Ego a male; but my grandmother 

 with Ego a female. In other words, the female has neither aunt or nephew or 

 niece. This is also a derivation from the typical form, but it agrees with the Min- 

 nitaree. 



Sixth. My mother's brother is my uncle. 



Seventh. My mother's sister is my mother. 



Eighth. My mother's sister's son and daughter are my brother and sister, elder 

 or younger. Among all the Gulf nations there are separate terms, in common 

 gender, for brother and sister in the abstract, which are applied by males to their 

 collateral brothers, and by females to their collateral sisters ; but the former use 

 the full terms for their collateral sisters, and the latter the same for their collateral 

 brothers. The first-named terms, however, are used concurrently with these for 

 brother and sister, elder and younger. 



Ninth. My grandfather's brother is my grandfather. 



Tenth. The grandchildren of my brothers and sisters, and of my collateral 

 brothers and sisters, are, severally, my grandchildren. 



We come next to the relationship which subsists between the children of a 

 brother and sister. My father's sister's son is my father, Ali'-lti, whether Ego be 

 a male or a female ; his son is my father again ; the son of the latter is also my 

 father; and this relationship, theoretically, continues downward in the male line 

 indefinitely. The analogue of this is found in the infinite series of uncles among 

 the Missouri nations, applied to the lineal male descendants of my mother's brother. 

 My father's sister's daughter, Ego a male, is my aunt, Ah-7mc'-ne, and calls me lier 

 son ; the son and daughter of this aunt are my brother and sister, elder or younger ; 

 the son and daughter of this collateral brother are my son and daughter, while 

 the son and daughter of this collateral sister are my nephew and niece ; and the 

 children of each and all of them are my grandchildren. With Ego a female, my 

 father's sister's daughter is my grandmother, Up-puk'-ni; her son and daughter 

 are my brother and sister, elder and younger ; the children of this collateral brother 

 are my grandchildren, of this collateral sister are my sons and daughters ; and their 

 children are my grandchildren. Notwithstanding the complexity of the classification 

 in this branch of the second collateral line, the method is both simple and coherent. 



On the reverse side, my mother's brother's son and daughter are my son and 

 daughter, whether Ego be a male or a female ; and their children are my grand- 

 children. In Creek and Cherokee my mother's brother's daughter, Ego being a 

 female, is my granddaughter. It is probably the same in Chocta, although not so 

 given in the Table. 



The third and fourth collateral lines, male and female, on the father's and on 

 the mother's side, are counterparts of the second, branch for branch, with the 

 exception of additional ancestors. 



