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brother's wife, and by a woman for the spouse of her husband's 

 brother or sister, the husband's brother or sister, the sister's husband, 

 and probably the brother's wife, though Morgan gives a distinct term 

 for this last. It is also used for the mother's brother's wife. A 

 second term is used for the wife's sister's husband and the wife's 

 brother, and a third for the sister's husband (m. sp.), and perhaps 

 the brother's wife, also the sister's daughter's husband, as noted above. 

 According to Morgan, a woman calls her brother's wife by a term 

 similar to the term for wife. In general, however, in each of these 

 languages the terms for husband and wife are distinct and not given 

 to anyone else. In Cherokee all of these relations of brother-in-law 

 and sister-in-law are covered by one term except those for wife's 

 sister's husband and wife's brother's wife, each of which has one 

 to itself. 



In Timucua a man uses one term, sometimes modified, for his 

 sister's husband, brother's wife, and wife's sister, and a woman em- 

 ploys the same for her sister's husband. A man has a distinct term 

 for his wife's sister's husband, and a woman a distinct term for her 

 husband's brother and another term for her brother's wife and hus- 

 band's sister. 



Yuchi, as already stated, agrees with Creek, Chickasaw, and 

 Timucua in having one term for grandmother and father's sister. It 

 differs from all these considered in having one term for the father's 

 brother and the mother's brother, and in having a word applied to the 

 mother's sister's son distinct from that given to one's brother, though 

 the terms for mother's sister's daughter and own sister are the same. 



As it has come down to us, Chitimacha has terms for mother's 

 sister and father's brother distinct from those for mother and father, 

 and a single term for brother's and sister's child distinct from those 

 for own child. The other terms are in considerable doubt. As 

 recorded, Tunica has one stem for grandfather, grandmother, and 

 grandchild differentiated by means of the sex and diminutive suffix. 



Dr. Spier thinks that Biloxi should possibly be classed with the 

 Yuman Type because the terms of relationship collected by Dorsey 

 suggested a considerable development of age distinctions, but I am 

 of the opinion that most of these distinctions are recent, due to the 

 break down of the language and the native customs, and that it 

 probably belongs in the Crow group.^^ 



The record of Quapaw terms is poor but it probably belonged to 

 the same system as Shawnee, that is, the Omaha Type. This agrees 

 with the systems we have been considering in having one term for 

 grandfather, one term for grandmother, and one term for grandchild. 

 The father's brother is also called by the same term as the father 



** Consult Spier (1924, 1925) for preceding data. 



