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occurs in them. In the American Anthropologist, n. s., 26, p. 96, I 
point out that Morgan’s Sauk [Sawk] and Fox schedules are really 
Sauk, and that there are some faults. What concerns us at this 
point is that the Sauk term given for sister’s son is the exact equiva- 
lent of the Fox sacrosanct term, not the common term. ‘This is 
absolutely opposed to my unpublished Sauk schedules. It may be 
noted that the interpreter Morgan used was a mixed-blood Menomini, 
and perhaps in this way the unusual term was introduced. In this 
connection it may be stated that according to Morgan’s Menomini 
schedules the terms for “‘my nephew (sister’s son)”’ and “my son- 
in-law”? obviously have the same base as in Ojibwa, etc., and so 
favors the existence of cross-cousin marriage. But Skinner does not 
mention such a type of marriage in his Menomini Social Life and 
Ceremonial Bundles; and it should be noted that the term given by 
him for ‘my son-in-law” differs totally from that given by Morgan. 
Unfortunately Skinner does not note this discrepancy, and he does 
not seem to be aware of the fact that Morgan had published schedules 
of Menomini kinship terms. It should be stated that according to 
Morgan the Kickapoo term for nephew (sister’s son, male speaker) 
is not the equivalent of the ordinary Fox word, but that of the 
sacrosanct word. This is opposed to the published schedules of 
Jones and my own unpublished ones. Moreover, in some Kickapoo 
texts dealing with mortuary customs, etc., dictated by a single 
informant, in phrases almost identical with Fox ones in which the 
sacrosanct word is used, the exact equivalents of common Fox words 
are employed (e. g. kenegwa enana* “our [incl.] nephew” [sister's 
son, male speaker]). Whether this is a fault on the part of the 
informant or not, I do not know. I do not think that the common 
Fox stem for “‘nephew”’ (sister’s son, male speaker) is to be explained 
as lacking an n- suffix, as has been maintained, but is rather to be 
explained as a hypocoristic formation. It should be noted that 
hypocoristic derivatives certainly are to be found among Fox per- 
sonal names. And they also occur in both Osage and Omaha (Fran- 
cis La Flesche, personal communication). As is known, Indo- 
European parallels to the latter abound, e. g., Freddy, Tommy, 
Bess, Sanskrit Dévas (for Dévadattas) , Greek Tavirmos (for Ayavurmos), 
Zevéits (for Zebémros). Colloquial English sis (for sister) will illus- 
trate a hypocoristic kinship term. The whole subject is too well 
known in Indo-European philology to merit special references. 
The Indian texts in this volume were written by various Foxes in 
the current syllabary and subsequently restored phonetically by me 
according to the phonetics of Harry Lincoln. The English transla- 
22 An Omaha example (in La Flesche’s transcription) is Nagi for Mikaginagi “‘Singed Brown Coyote’’ 
(Mikagi coyote, nac¢i singed brown). 
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