Lounsbury's Analysis of Republican Pawnee Terminology: Comparison with Lushbaugh's Original Data

The original Republican Pawnee kinship terminology collected for Lewis Henry Morgan by B. F. Lushbaugh in 1863 differs from the version of it Morgan published in several particulars. Lushbaugh's list is published here in full for the first time and makes an original contribution to Pawnee ethnography. It provides an opportunity to check on the nature of and the reasons for the changes Morgan made and to test for biases which Kronenfeld has suggested might be present in Morgan's record. It also provides an opportunity to check several specifications which Lounsbury has reconstructed for the Pawnee. These comparisons make it possible to see why Morgan made the changes he introduced. It is also possible to see that Morgan was willing to suppress his own material when he thought that that provided by someone else was more accurate. Lushbaugh's list gives us a much firmer empirical grounding than is possible if we rely on the published version. For the most part it also supports Lounsbury's reconstructions from reciprocals; however, with one exception, it does not support another, smaller, set of reconstructions, the purpose of which is to confirm Lounsbury's hypothesis of a FFZDD marriage prescription.