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what the term given actually means. Similarly the term given for 

 "my wife's mother" is opposed to the information of Tims, Grinnell, 

 Wissler, Uhlenbeck, and Michelson. The term given for "my hus- 

 band's brother" (p. 378) is right, according to Michelson's informa- 

 tion, only when the husband and his brother are twins. When they 

 are not twins, there will be two separate terms, according as to 

 whether the husband's brother is older or younger than himself. The 

 term for "my wife's brother" (p. 379), singularly enough, is correct, 

 while the Blood correspondent really means "my sister's husband". 

 Similarly, on page 380 the Piegan word in schedule 260 is correct, but 

 the Blood word means "my sister's husband", and "my husband's 

 brother" if the husband and his brother are twins. For an extended 

 use of the term, see below. The term given on the same page for 

 "my husband's sister" really means "my brother's wife". Similarly, 

 the term given for "my brother's wife" with male speaker really is 

 that for "my wife's sister". 



It will not be necessary to criticize the Piegan "indicative features" 

 discussed by Morgan (pp. 225, 226), for it will be seen from the above 

 that practically every statement proceeds from faulty data. 



After the unpleasant task of pointing out the defects of Morgan's 

 Piegan schedules, it is no more than fair to give a list of such terms 

 as are fully confirmed by the present writer. These are the ones 

 corresponding to my grandmother, father, mother, son, daughter, 

 younger brother (male speaker), younger sister (female speaker), 

 brother's son's wife, sister's son's wife, father's sister's daughter's 

 husband, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister's husband, wife's brother, 

 wife's sister, and brother's wife (female speaker). It will be noticed 

 there are some schedules which the present writer can neither refute 

 nor confirm. 



We next come to the work of Tims. First of all, it should be 

 stated that only a comparatively few terms of relationship are given 

 in the dictionary. The phonetics, though an improvement on those 

 of Morgan, naturally are not of a very high order. Disregarding 

 these, the words given for the following are entirely correct: my 

 elder brother, younger brother (male speaker), younger sister (male 

 speaker), younger brother (female speaker), younger sister (female 

 speaker), elder sister, husband, son-in-law, son, daughter, daughter- 

 in-law, grandson, granddaughter, mother, mother-in-law, father, wife, 

 grandparent. The term given for brother-in-law with male speaker is 

 correct when applied to sister's husband, but not so when applied to 

 wife's brother. In specially mentioning the sex of the speaker, Tims 

 has scored against Grinnell and Uhlenbeck. The present writer is 



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