MICHELSON. ] INTRODUCTION, Sine 
For Teton Sioux: 
Dorsey, J. O. Teton folk-lore. Amer. Anthrop., vol. 11, 1889. pp. 148-148. 
For Assiniboine: 
Lowi, Rosert H. The Assiniboine. Anthrop. Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 
vol. 1v, pt. 1, 1909. pp. 41-42. 
For Comanche: 
Greco, J. Op. cit. p. 351. 
Robert H. Lowie’s Primitive Society, chapter 11, should be con- 
sulted for the levirate and sororate in general. Dr. John R. Swanton 
informs me that among the Alibamu the clan to which the deceased 
wife or husband belonged must replace them for the opposite con- 
tracting party. Among the Kickapoo the junior levirate only occurs, 
to judge from my unpublished Kickapoo texts on Kickapoo mortuary 
customs and beliefs. Yet as these were obtained from but a single 
informant I should not consider this as absolutely conclusive. 
Going back to the question of likeness and dissimilarity of mortuary 
customs and beliefs, it is clear that a number of features are shared 
in common between the Foxes and other tribes. Some of these 
similarities are too detailed to be the result of independent origin. 
In short, acculturation has taken place extensively. Among the 
Siouan tribes this has also taken place. Concrete proof of this is the 
fact that both the Fox and Winnebago believe that if a widow or 
widower unreleased from death-ceremonies goes through a garden 
the crops will die; that if they touch a tree it will die; moreover, 
both tribes have injunctions that such persons must not go bare- 
footed, and that they must dress shabbily; etc. The problem of 
unraveling this matter in detail can not be solved until we have 
much more detailed information among the tribes to which references 
have been given and others also (e. g., Iowa, etc.). A clear case of 
such borrowing is the custom of a man having a claim on his deceased 
wife’s sisters. 
Quite similar to the question raised above is that regarding the 
culture-hero’s peculiar relationship to mortals. He is related to them 
as sister’s son. Obviously then, with a male speaker, he will be 
“nephew” and with a female speaker, ‘‘son.”” This follows from the 
Fox system of consanguinity. But he is related to mortals this way also 
among the Sauk, Kickapoo, Potawatomi [Prairie Band], and Menomini. 
Sauk, Kickapoo, and Potawatomi [Prairie Band] have even direct 
correspondents to Fox Wi'sa‘ki‘“*. And Peoria and Cree have 
forms which correspond absolutely to Wi'sa‘ka'‘tcig*™*, the form 
which occurs in songs among the Foxes. A query may be asked, 
whether this may not be the old Central Algonquian word? Among 
the Northern Saulteaux, etc., the word is obviously borrowed; it 
may be original in the Cree group of Central Algonquian languages. 
The Menomini and Ojibwa words correspond to each other, but can 
