Observations on the thunder dance of the Bear gens of the Fox Indians / by Truman Michelson.
- Truman Michelson
- Date:
- 1929
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Observations on the thunder dance of the Bear gens of the Fox Indians / by Truman Michelson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Agi- count (-t- instr. with inan. object). 32.13. *AfckwI- stay, remain (-T- instr.). 56.36. -AtA- meaning ? -e- instr. with inan. obi 32.27. -Ata- wail; -mo- middle. 48.33. *Api- sit; the combination kegApi- means, have the power. 50.37, 52.7. -agen- a fossil compound of weak meaning. 42.29. -egwAina- fast; cf. Jones’s Fox Texts 182.17, 184.3, 186.15: note the -To- (-so-) middle as opposed to the usage of this text. 56.20. *inegiekwi- of such a size; -to- instr. with inan. obj. 34.7. aiyafkw- or -aiya'kw- meaning? Reduplication of -a'kwi- not plausi¬ ble. 52.1. ka'cki- scrape; onomatopoetic; reduplicated ka'cka'cki-; -V- instr. 30.12. *kegi- have with one; the combination kegApi- means, have the power. 50.37, 52.7. ke'ca- pet (verb); always -mo- middle even when transitive in mean¬ ing and with animate object; kagetcamotidtcinIlle and klge'camo- ?idtcinnit [34.20] (both meaning, the one whom he pets) are used in religious ceremonies: the ordinary word is ka'camudtcinnK; the phonetics of the first two are obscure as are those of nelai'yA kaTegeTamoHyannit (I have a pet); and similarly kage'ca- at 50.16. ke'cawa- ashes. (Cf. ke'cawi- (stir fire), Fortieth Ann. Kept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 632.) 50.38. * *kficki- cut off; with -m- instr., chew. 28.9. -Tanu- pass the time with; -t- instr. 34.3. -(kwa- meaning ? The combination tA'so'kwapI- means, as many as sit down to the feast. 34.25. *-gi- grow, mature; -n- -n- instr. 50.10. ce'cow- rub. 52.12. *tcagi- all; -m- instr. 34.27. *-dtca- belly, bodj^-; the expression wfinAtodtcaTkAmati;?soyAgkwe* (38.30, 31) is good evidence that the stem should be given as -dtca-, not -edtca-, as has been recently claimed. *tAgwi- together; the combination of tAgwi- and -wa- makes tAgowa-. (See Fortieth Ann. Kept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 616, 656.) 36.31. *tA*swi- number (-Taw- instr., before which tA'swi- appears as IaTo-). ^ua- attack; -Tya- auxiliary. 44.5. -nA- meaning ? 58.10. -iiAni- butcher (-'- instr. with an obj.); related in some way to winAni- butcher. 30.2. nanaw- spare, be easy on. 42.21. *ne'tawi- separately; I think it plausible that na'tawi- and ne'to- are to be combined with the meaning assigned. 28.27, 34.41, 36.6.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29980835_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
