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Kinship term: Relatives to whom applied 



(8) akwdni (con- Father's brother's daughter's 

 tinued) daughter (M. S.). 



Father's sister's daughter's 



daughter (M. S.). 

 Father's sister's son's daughter 



(M. S.). 

 Wife's brother's wife (M. S.)- 

 Mother's brother's daughter 



(F. S.). 

 Mother's brother's daughter's 



daughter (P. S.). 

 Mother's sister's son's daughter 



(F. S.). 

 Brother's daughter (F. S.). 

 Father's brother's son's daughter 



(F. S.). 

 Father's sister's daughter's 



daughter (F. S.). 

 Brother's wife (F. S.). 



(9) edidi Son. 



Daughter. 



Stepson. 



Stepdaughter. 



Brother's son (M. S.). 



Brother's daughter (M. S.). 



Father's brother's son's son (M. 



S.). 

 Father's brother's son's daughter 



(M. S.). 

 Mother's sister's son's son (M. S.). 

 Mother's sister's son's daughter 



(M. S.). 

 Mother's brother's daughter's 



daughter (M. S.). 

 Mother's brother's daughter's 



son (M. S.). 

 Sister's son (F. S.). 

 Sister's daughter (F. S.). 

 Father's brother's daughter's 



daughter (F. S.). 

 Father's brother's daughter's 



son (F. S.). 

 Father's sister's son's son (F. S.). 

 Father's sister's son's daughter 



(F. S.). 

 Mother's sister's daughter's 



daughter (F. S.). 

 Mother's sister's daughter's 



son (F. S.). 



(10) &ke Grandson. 



Granddaughter. 

 Child of nephew or niece. 

 Child of first cousin once re- 

 moved. 

 Child. 



(11) mninfzi^ Wife (M. S.). 



Husband (F. S.). 

 ' I am not positive that this term is applied to both husband and wife. 

 Since the kinship system make! no sex distinctions between potential hus- 

 band and potential wife, I am fairly certain that the same term is applied to 

 actual husband and wife. 



Kinship terms are more frequently used in 

 address than personal names or nicknames. The 

 latter, however, are sometimes employed in ad- 

 dress and frequently (particularly nicknames) in 

 reference. In husband-wife relationships, more- 

 over, special teknonymic usages prevail. After a 

 child has been born, a man addresses his wife as 

 akesi (mother-of-child) and he is addressed by 

 her as akendu (father-of-child). These usages, 

 so far as I know, do not extend to other relation- 

 ships. 



The outstanding characteristics of the kinship 

 system are the following: 



(1) Kinship is bifurcate-merging. The father's 

 brother is classified with the father, while the 

 mother's brother is designated by another term; 

 similarly, the mother's sister is classified with the 

 mother, while the father's sister is designated by 

 another term. 



(2) Grandparents are not distinguished in 

 kinship terminology. Grandfathers and their 

 brothers are designated by the same term as 

 mother's brother, while grandmothers and their 

 sisters are designated by the same term as father's 

 sister. 



(3) No sex distinctions are made between sib- 

 lings and parallel cousins, all of whom are desig- 

 nated by one term. 



(4) Cross-cousins are distinguished from parallel 

 cousins, and the cross-cousin terminology reflects 

 the system of marriage. A man marries his 

 mother's brother's daughter, a woman her father's 

 sister's son. Marriage between a man and his 

 father's sister's daughter or between a woman and 

 her mother's brother's son is forbidden. The 

 cross-cousins whom one can marry are referred to 

 by the term "potential spouse." The father's 

 sister's children are terminologically classified with 

 the father's sister and her husband, i. e., they are 

 raised one generation, while the mother's brother's 

 children are classified with nephews and nieces, 

 i. e., they are terminologically depressed one gen- 

 eration. On the basis of cousin terminology the 

 kinship system is thus of the Crow type. 



(5) No sex distinctions are made between son 

 and daughter, both of whom are designated by 

 the same term, and this term is extended to in- 

 clude the children of siblings and of parallel 

 cousins of the opposite sex. 



(6) Special terms showing sex differences are 

 employed to designate the sons and daughters of 



