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THE ACOMA INDIANS 



[eth. 



Table 5. — Kinship Terms 



Fathor = s;i iiaieni'a (my father). 

 Mother = nai' ya. 

 Son = sa mit' (my son). 

 Daughter = sa ma'ak'. 

 Brother = d}-u'nr». 

 Sister = tc'itc'i. 

 Father's brother = naicDi'a. 

 Father's sister = nai'ya. 

 Father's father = na na. 

 Father's mother = ljaBa». 

 Father's brother's \vife = nai'ya. 

 Father's sister's husband = nai'ci)ia. 

 Father's brother's son = dyum''>. 

 Father's brother's daughter=(sa)k'uitc'. 

 Father's sister's son=(Sa) dyum'». 

 Father's sister's daughter= (Sa) k'uitc'. 

 Mother's mother =(Sa) Bafia". 

 Mother's father =(Sa) na-na. 

 Mother's brother = Sa'nawe. 

 Mother's sister = Sa nui'ya. 

 Mother's brother's \vife = Sa k'uitc'. 

 Mother's sister's husband = Nai'cDia. 

 Mother's brother's sou = sa mit'. 

 Mother's brother's daughter = Sa 



maak'. 

 Mother's sister's son = Sa dyu'm". 

 Mother's sister's daughter = Sa k'uitc'. 

 Brother's wife = Sa Bi'ye. 

 Brother's son = sa mit'. 

 Brother's daughter = Sa ma'ak'. 

 Brother's son's \vife = Bi'}'e. 

 Brother's daughter's husband = Waati. 

 Sister's husband = Sa wa'ati. 

 Sister's son = Sanawe. 

 Sister's daughter=Si nayatcaui (8a- 



awa«) . 

 Sister's son's wife = Bi'y«. 

 Sister's daughter's husband = Wa'at'. 

 Son's son = Sa na na. 

 Son's wife = Sa Bi'yc. 

 Son's daughter = Sa Basa". 

 Daughter's husband = Sa wa'ati. 



Daughter's son = Sa na'iia. 



Daughter's daughter=Sa Basa". 



Nai'cDia=Father, father's brother, 

 father's sister's luisband, mother's 

 sister's husljand. 



Nai'ya= Mother, fatlier's sister, fa- 

 ther's brother's wife, mother's sister. 



Dyu'm» = Brother, father's brother's 

 son, father's sister's son, motlier's 

 si.ster's son. 



BaBa'' = Fatlier's motlier, mother's 

 mother, son's daughter, daughter's 

 daugliter. 



Na"na = Father's fatlier, mother's 

 fatlier, son's son, daughter's son. 



Sa mit' = Son, mother's brother's son, 

 brotlier's son. 



Sa ma"ak' = Daughter, motlier's brotli- 

 er's daughter, brother's daughter. 



Sa naw« = Mother's brother, sister's son. 



Sa k'uitc' = Father's brother's daughter, 

 father's sister's daughter, mother's 

 brother's wife, mother's sister's 

 daughter. 



Sa Bi'ye = Brotlier's wife, brother's son's 

 wife, sister's son's wife, son's wife. 



Sa wa'ati = Brother's daughter's hus- 

 band, sister's daughter's husband, 

 daughter's husband, sister's husband. 



Tci-tci = Sister. 



Si nayatcani (Saawa") = Sister's daugh- 

 ter. 



Man = Hatcts!. 



Woman = K'u. 



Boy= Mtitietsa (sing.). 



Boy = Crtiyet" (coll.). 



Girl=Ma-ak'Otsa. 



Baby = Oak'. 



Child =Dat'c. 



Boy 10 to 16 years = Tca-taka. 



Girl about 16 = ma'asitra. 



Adults (coll.) = Nawaititra. 



Note. — See list of kinship terms in Doctor Parsons's Laguna Genealogies, p. 

 147. There is a list, too, on p. 84, Zuiii Kin and Clan, which Professor Kroeber 

 secured from Acoma and Laguna informants. B = interniediate b-p; D = inter- 

 mediate d-t. 



GOVERNMENT 



Political control of the pueblo is exercised by officers and societies. 

 The officers maj' be divided into two groups, viz, the cacique-war 

 chief group, and the governor with his aides. The latter is of post- 



