MICHELSON ] OWL SACRED PACK OF THE FOX INDIANS 71 
We now come to a few points where reference to the grammatical 
sketch is impracticable. 
I have treated loose verbal composition in the International Jour- 
nal of American Linguistics, i, 50; hence it is quite sufficient to 
merely cite a few examples occurring in the text. See 38.22, 46.3, 
50.27, 50.28, 54.33, 58.26, 58.35, 64.42. A peculiar free nominal com- 
ponnd is kv Eee teeta sini, 44.32, a locative inanimate plural, 
‘‘when gens festivals are finished,’’ with the inclusion of the particle 
-4%cq‘", The type of compound Somes in 1 the International Journal, 
1, 52, occurs at 50.29. 
feces verbal forms with inanimate subject or subjects are not 
treated in the sketch save for the participial and possessed noun of 
the third person (§§33,34). I regret to report that the table for the 
participial is very faulty in this respect as it is in others, nor is the 
treatment of the possessed inanimate noun entirely right. The 
Indian text in this volume shows that intransitive verbal forms 
with inanimate subject or subjects and animate object or objects, 
-gui- immediately follows the instrumental particle and the ordi- 
nary animate intransitive verbal pronouns affixed, thus, w?‘nene- 
‘*kdne’megwit4* (42.2) ‘‘the one of whom it will think,” wi‘nd‘sé‘e’- 
gwiwa%ci (50.35) ‘“‘it will heal them,” wit'wéta‘sdwi‘e’qwiydg*’ 
(56.31) ‘‘it will make you warriors.” 
There is a peculiar construction with -we%ci for the conjunctive, 
-wete for the subjunctive which is to be found in the text, e. g., 
a kigd’/nowe%tc™ (18.3) ‘‘when a gens festival is given,” et teen - 
mowetc* (16.23) *‘whileaspeech was given,” wié%tca’‘owet%ter (80.31) 
‘“‘when a meal was cooked,” wé4%tci‘sa‘sa’/‘kwawettcr (32.2) ‘why it 
was against their religion,” i‘ca’wiwet“ (382.43) “‘if it were done.” 
Obviously the w is an instrumental particle and the terminations 
are the same as those for the third person animate, conjunctive and 
subjunctive of the indefinite passive. 
The use of the formative element -i- which occurs a number of 
times in the Indian text is quite baffling. The most I could get from 
informants by direct questions was that in at least some cases it made 
the word ‘‘sound sadder.’’ Examples may be found at 28.15, 40.27, 
46.27. 
An anomalous form d'sa‘ka‘amétene’%tc* ‘they were given it to 
burn as an offering,” is to be found at 50.17. Additional forms secured 
by interrogation failed to elucidate the medial -te-. 
