44 ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE, [EDH. ANN. 40, 
It may be noted that almost all the material contained in this 
paper was gathered nearly 12 years ago. Unforeseen circumstances, 
over which the writer had no control, have delayed its publication 
until the present time. Where possible, such additional information 
as has been gained in the interval has been inserted. 
FOX PHONETICS. 
T have discussed the phonetic elements of Fox in the International 
Journal of American Linguistics, i, 54, and the Journal of the Wash- 
ington Academy of Sciences, 9, 521-525. 
The following is a tabular view of the phonetic elements as I con- 
ceive them: 
Vowels and diphthongs. 
Full-sounding: 
a Ae 1) 0) ul 
EB th bh Gon 
al au 
Voiceless and aspirated (terminal only): 
a‘ et ie uf 
Consonants. 
Stops | Spirants. | Affricatives. Nasals. | Semi-vowels. 
Glotta] aaa eee P ‘ — — = 
Palatal: esses eee sete k ‘kg gk | — a —- yy 
AL VCO ADS sap a == cic te ‘te 4te | — — 
Dentales= se Soe ae t ‘td s‘s — n® — 
Dabial ee 22a eee p'ipb |— — m™ ww 
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Following the recommendations of the committee of the American 
Anthropological Association (see p. 1 of Phonetic transcription of 
Indian Languages, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 66, 
No. 6), I have employed the symbols and general scheme of Doctor 
Jones save where, in my judgment, they are inadequate. 
Owing to the fact that the Fox language has “‘sentence-phonetics,” 
and that the number of words I could record at a time depended 
on the length of the words, the resulting text, of course, contained 
mixed phonetics. It has on the whole seemed best to normalize 
the sentence-phonetics so as to give a truer picture of the language. 
In this normalization I have substituted full-sounding vowels for 
the voiceless aspirated ones before initial consonants, save where 
the sense indicates a pause; before initial vowels and ai- the preced- 
ing terminal vowels are eliminated. In this way complicated sym- 
bols such as -m™, -g*"“* have for the most part been eliminated in 
favor of -mA, -gwa, respectively. Of course this normalization has 
