; ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 689 
: cousin cousin's 3 
wife's : 2 wife 71 
teema'e, Wichand’s i {bros b brother 3 { husband f 
sister, sister’s 
son 
= daughter | . 
-in-law. 
8” 497) father 
mother 
skué'was.—If a member of one family has married a member of another his and 
her relatives call each other skuwé’was, e.g., step-brother, &c. 
2. INTERMEDIATE RELATIVE DEAD. 
a father’s f brother | Kees ep brother’s | 1). 
uotsa' éqoitl, TnEean (sist er f? swinéma'itl, sister's f child. 
eft ife’s 1 cousin, cousin’s ae 
tea'idé, {fn ; brother, >, brother’s 
husband’s f ister pas ‘husband. 
cE hye son, daughter,] . 
slik:oa'itl, { thes mmotites -in-law. 
III. ACQUIRED RELATIONSHIP (THROUGH MARRIAGE). 
sesé/el, wife’s grand { ea , Step-grand em 
sg’mdn, aunt’s husband, step-father. 
satci‘ca, uncle’s wife, step-mother. 
semen, step-child. 
15) a son’s wife 
poe ars, Bran 1 Seeereeeey peeeeen 
4 wife’s father, +745. f husband 
sesd/aq, eae oD nee sete p-childs Lwife. 
Bilqula. 
, I have not been able to get a satisfactory collection of terms of relationship from 
the Bilqula. The following will show, however, that their system differs greatly 
_ from that of the Coast Salish. It seems the distinction between the two classes of 
- indirect relationship does not exist. 
: ha' kpi, father 8 father, granduncle. stlémts, grandchild. 
: ‘L mother’s gt & 
Pee ei taoher's Er ; i 
GG, > other's J mother, grandaunt. talau'sau, married couple. 
| man, father. k:dalz'm, elder i netas 
4 
: x ee brother 
: stan, mother. sdaqgé', younger or ea 
: -)< Jf father’s 
mz'na, child. 8180, 1 no tote brother. 
| een father’s . 
siskuso'm, igh are sister. 
father 
skus?, < mother \-in-law. 
child 
Stla’tlema. 
There is no distinction between terms of relationship used by male or female. 
Only terms of affinity are affected by the death of an intermediate relation. 
Great-grandparent, ts’w'péyuk*, great-grandchild. 
