12.0 PllOCKKDIXGS OF THK CANADIAN INSTITL'TK. 



As for affinity consequent upon either lawful or unlawful sexual 

 relations, it was siniply ignored. Nay, I siiouM say that it was rather 

 considered a powerful incentive to marriage, except wlien the regula- 

 tions of the clan organization interfered so as to make the two relatives 

 fellow clansmen. Thus it was. that in the case of a deceased brother's 

 wife, the 1 'enes treated her confornialjly with the directions of the 

 Jewish law, and the nephew considered himself in duty bound to 

 espouse her. 



It would be ditiicidt to give here a complete table of agnates and 

 cognates as named and lanked l)y the four Tribes under review, some 

 of whom receive different n;imes according as they ai"e called by a 

 male or female, or relatively to their comparative age. I shall, how- 

 ever, confine myself to a few remaiics embodying the more character- 

 istic peculiai-ities in their mode of i-eckoning kindred relationship. 



1° A large proportion of our Denes never go beyond tlie second 

 degree in com]iuting their progenitors or offspring, whether in a direct 

 or collateral line, and in no instance do they go beyond the third 

 degree — more distant relatives in either line being then called respec- 

 tively graud-fathei- and grand-mother if ascendants, or grand-children 

 if descendants. 



2'^ Gi'and-uncles and grand-aunts both maternal and ])aternal are 

 also called grand-father and grand-mother. 



3° Although they possess and sometimes use words meaning 

 bi'other or sister without any reference to their relative age, they 

 more generally designate them elder brother and elder sister, or 

 youngei" brother and younger sister. 



4" A son is called sye by his father and sijaz by his mother who 

 also calls her daughter sj/atse, while hei- father when referring to her' 

 always uses stse. 



5° Both nephews and nieces ai"e called stsu Ity their maternal uncle 

 and skwaz by their maternal aunt, while eitlier paternal uncle or aunt 

 will call their nephew younger brother and their niece younger sister. 



> These and the following Aboriginal terms are in the Carrier dialect. This not lieing- a 

 philological pajier, I have deemed it sni)erfluous to have them accompanied with their f'hilhxotin 

 and Si'kanais etc., etiuivalents. 



