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Again, in the collateral terms certain terms express the sex of the per- 

 son addressed but not that of the speaker, whereas other terms express 

 the sex of both. 



In the nomenclature as well as in the psychological attitude seniority 

 is the outstanding principle. Lucinda frecjuently referred to some- 

 body as the "oldest in the family" to explain the application of one 

 term or another. Not only in the brother-sister terms is seniority 

 expressed but in the terms for collaterals, the uncle-aunt terms being 

 applied to senior collaterals in general and the nephew-niece terms to 

 junior collaterals. However, the brother-sister terms may be applied, 

 and not only to cousins but even to aunts and uncles. 



There is the characteristic Pueblo looseness of usage in applying 

 kinship terms. As noted, an uncle may be called older brother, 

 as GenealogA' I, 27, 28>r2 or Genealog.y I, 12 > 5, or an uncle may 

 be called father or gi'andfather. As noted, Lucinda had the habit of 

 calling junior collaterals by son-daughter terms. The term used by 

 a child in the family may be used by other members of the family, as 

 for example, in the case of Genealog^" II, 2, who was called chi'i, 

 mother's mother, not only by her grandchild but by her grandchild's 

 parents. 



The principle of reciprocity is observed only in marriage or affinity 

 terms. Affinity terms in address are, as elsewhere, the terms corre- 

 sponding to those used for the connecting relative, i. e., parents-in-law 

 are addressed as father, mother, a brother-in-law as brother, etc. 

 Genealog3' II, 13, calls her mother's mother's brother's wife, grand- 

 mother, because she calls her mother's mother's brother grandfather 

 or younger grandfather. Again, Genealogy II, 7, calls her mother's 

 brother's wife nana shifun because she calls her mother's brother 

 tata shifun, although the woman is actually shure', not shifun. On 

 the other hand, Lucinda called her father's brother's wife, mother, 

 although her father's brother she called grandfather. Aunts and 

 uncles by marriage are usually called by mother-father terms, prob- 

 ably merely as courtesy terms. Genealogy I, 5, called Genealogy T, 

 1, his sister's husband, meme' tee'. ^ATiy? I do not know. 



To distinguish between one relative and another to whom the same 

 term woidd be applied, descriptive words are compoimded, e. g., 

 Genealogy I, 31, referred to her father's eldest brother, as nmeme 

 iila'de, my big uncle. Her mother's mother's brother she referred to 

 as younger grandfather, nte'e pali. 



Comparing the Isletan nomenclature with that of Taos-Picuris we 

 may note that the term for mother's mother, chi'i, does not occur in 

 the latter system which has but the one grandmother term, Taos, 

 anhtona, Picuris, anletona, which may possibly be related to the 

 Isletan gi-andmother term inlurei. Isletan nomenclature is also 

 enriched by two terms for younger sister, man speaking and woman 



