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wadoMtci, and MnH'nl- — tceJc'. Hinfinga's might be said to be 

 divided into himig and ga~s, but there is no reason to assume that 

 such a division of the word is justifiable, and for that reason it has 

 not been included in the enumeration of Jiin'd'n — V stems. The 

 form tcido, elder brother, spoken by females, is baffling, all the 

 more so if we assume that there never was a form for '"younger 

 brother" used by women. 



Let us now separate the terms applied to relatives through mar- 

 riage from those applied to blood relatives. 



Relatives 

 through marriage 



Hitca'" 



Hi-imi'iiig k' 



-k', hfdekENi^gk' Hinugga's 



Three terms are applied sometimes to blood relatives and some- 

 times to relatives tlirough marriage: Hitctl'Hvi, hi-uni'niijl-', and 

 TiiniLyga's. It is the author's belief that in all these cases the terms 

 have been applied to relatives through marriage on accoimt of the 

 extremely close relationship the husbands of hitcu'^wi and hi-uni'niv¥ 

 and the wives of Am^^^o's bear to one's parents; that it is really 

 an act of courtesy toward people whose children are in one case 

 (hitc^'^un" and M-uni'mrjl-) regarded as one's brothers and sisters 

 and in the other case as the same as one's sister's children. There 

 never was the slightest confusion as to the position held by the wife 

 of one's father's brother Qii-uni'invl:'), or one's mother's brother's 

 wife, or the husband of one's mother's sister; nor is there the slightest 

 indication that they ever were considered as identical with any 

 blood relatives who bore the same name. 



The foregoing list contains twenty-two terms of relationship 

 applied by the Winnebago to all relatives, blood or otherwise, for 

 five generations — one's own father's, grandfather's, son's, and grand- 

 son's. The two tables following show first, how these terms were 

 distributed over the five generations, and second, to how many 

 people of these five generations the same name was applied. 



Generation Male Female 



1. Grandfather's Hitcoke' Hi'k'arok'e' 



2. Father's Hi-a'ntc, hide'k' Ili-u'ni, hi-uninigk' 



Hinugga's, hitca'" llitcu"'fl'i'' 



3. One's own Hini, hisu'i)k' Hinu, waitckg', hLnuijk' tce'k' 



Hitcu^cke', hideke- HitcCjo'gk', hitcu'^wi", 



Nigk', hitca'", HiwarigS', hiciga'" 

 Waaoho'tci, hicik^e 



4. Son's Hinigk', hitcu°cke', Hinii'gk', hinugk' tce'k', 



Hini, hisii'gk', Hitcu" jo'gk', hinu, 



Wadohotci Waitcke' 



