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known by this term must sometimes have been enormous and often 

 very widely scattered through the tribe. The extension of the term 

 given to the children of one whom the speaker called "sister" was 

 likely to be smaller because all the children of the own sisters and the 

 clan sisters would be members of the same clan, but a man also called 

 "sister" those women whose fathers he called father's brothers, and 

 through their mothers they might have belonged, as we have seen, 

 to nearly all the phratries in the nation. In the case of a woman the 

 term "my child" would have less extension and the term "my brother's 

 child" greater extension. The remaining terms, those for grand- 

 father, grandmother, grandchild, and those used between persons 

 connected by marriage, were not confined within clan limits. 



If these terms were used in the collective sense, which, from what 

 we know of the terminology of other tribes having clans and from the 

 hints dropped by Pareja, we suspect, it is easy to see that it would 

 often be a question where to draw the line in the application of terms 

 between certain persons nearly of an age. But since a distinct con- 

 notation goes with every term irrespective of considerations of age, is 

 it not possible that different terms may on occasion have been applied 

 to one and the same individual when it was desired to bring out a 

 particular status with reference to the speaker? Thus the term mother's 

 sister at once identifies the individual as a woman of one's own clan, 

 the term mother's brother identifies him as a man of one's own clan, 

 the term father's brother as a man of the father's clan, the term 

 father's sister as a woman of the father's clan, the term father's 

 sister's child as an individual of indeterminate sex of the father's 

 clan, the terms elder brother, younger brother, and sister, as males or 

 females whose fathers were those whom the speaker calls father or 

 father's brothers or those whose mothers the speaker calls mother or 

 mother's sisters, the term child as one's own child or the child of a 

 man whom the speaker calls elder brother, younger brother, or 

 mother's brother, the term for sister's child as one whose mother the 

 speaker calls sister. If a woman is speaking, her term for child will 

 be that given to her own child and to the children of the women she 

 calls sisters, elder and younger, while her term for brother's child 

 will be given to the children of those she calls brother, and those she 

 calls mother's brother. Grandfather will indicate a very old man, 

 grandmother a very old woman, and grandson one whose father or 

 mother the speaker calls "my child", and probably a very young 

 person of either sex. The connotation of the terms brought about by 

 marriage will be readily understood. It thus appears that the terms 

 of relationship when used in their broader applications might have 



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