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 DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE

CORRECTION TO KINSHIP TERMS AMONG THE NORTHEASTERN ALGONKIAN

IN my paper "Kinship Terms and the Family Band among the Northeastern Algonkian," American Anthropologist, vol. xx, no. 2 (1918), some typographical errors have been called to my attention which I desire to correct. I also take occasion to add several points regarding the terms ascertained by later inquiry.

In the Malecite and Passamaquaddy columns, on page 158 there is an error of alignment involving the first eleven terms. The first term in this column ndma'gddem should go up one space to make it level with Micmac nida'k' cw. Incidentally the corresponding term ndda'k* w in Malecite does not stand as an equivalent for the Micmac nida'k^ as "sister's husband," man speaking. In the Micmac column the terms in parentheses are synonymous for the name directly above them. This sets the Malecite and Micmac columns in proper alignment. Next, the first eleven terms in both these columns should go up one space to form a lateral alignment with the Abenaki and Penobscot columns. Another question raised by Dr. Sapir in correspondence with me, can be answered here. On page 157 in the Malecite column the two terms in parenthesis nzi'wbs and nada'wus refer to either cross or parallel cousins indiscrimi- nately. They are not applied, at least nowadays, to one set of cousins more than another.

Again, on page 156, concerning the seventh and eighth Micmac terms, I inquired of Joe Toney, a Micmac, and learned that he gave nsugwds as either paternal or maternal aunt. On page 160, the first term in the Malecite column should be ndgwus not nogwus. Also on page 156, the fifth Penobscot term, "grandfather," should be ndmu^su'mds. Another typographical error is on page 151, nymo^su'mds should be nd-mo^su'mds, step grandfather." I might also add the statement, which should have appeared in the discussion, that no taboo against the mother-in-law in any form has been encountered among the northeastern Algonkian. Perhaps it is well for the sake of emphasis that this state- ment has to be added in the corrigendum.

F. G. SPECK

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