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Page 8 - On the evolution of language, as exhibited in the specialization of the grammatic processes, the differentiation of the parts of speech, and the integration of the sentence; from a study of Indian languages, by JW Powell. P. 1-16. Sketch of the mythology of the North American Indians, by JW Powell. P. 17-5C. Wyandot government: a short study of tribal society, by JW Powell.
Page 19 - Swanton (44). Indian languages of Mexico and Central America, and their geographical distribution by Cyrus Thomas, assisted by John R. Swanton Accompanied by a linguistic map (45).
Page 17 - Out of print. (13). Bibliography of the Algonquian languages by James Constantine Pilling 1891 [1892] 8°. x, 614 p., 82 facsimiles. Out of print. (14). Bibliography of the Athapascan languages by James Constantine Pilling 1892 8°.
Page 26 - Although they are wild and ferocious, you must gain their confidence, and be very careful to keep your word after having promised them anything, otherwise they treat you with the greatest contempt. The Choctaw appear to be quiet and peaceable people, and even now the few remaining at Bayou Lacomb often refer to the fact that their tribe never took up arms against the Americans. MARRIAGE CEREMONY The marriage ceremony as performed until a few years ago, at a time when there were many Choctaw living...
Page 14 - The wild-rice gatherers of the upper lakes, a study in American primitive economics, by Albert Ernest Jenks. P. 1013-1137, pi. LXVI-LXXIX, fig. 47-48. Index to part 2. P. 1139-1160. Twentieth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1898-99 by JW Powell director [Vignette] Washington Government Printing Office 1903 Roy.
Page 6 - USA,0 whose name, with the date 1859, is still to be seen cut on a stone in a wall of ruin A. A few years ago information was obtained from Navaho by Richard and John Wetherill of the existence of some of the large cliff-houses on Laguna creek and its branches; the latter has guided several parties to them. Among other visitors in 1909 may be mentioned Dr. Edgar L. Hewett, director of the School of American Archaeology of the Archaeological Institute of America. A party6 from the University of Utah,...
Page 16 - ... whenever advice was required, and, as will be seen later, they played an important part in the marriage ceremony of the tribe. The subdivisions of the tribe were numerous and no two members of the same division (ogla) were allowed to marry. The divisions known to have lived in this region are: Kasha'pa ogla, or the Half people. — They lived at Bayou Lacomb and the remnant of the tribe now dwelling there belong to this division. The name of the village was Butchu'wa. Shatje ogla, or the Crayfish...
Page 16 - Toshkachito (pi. 20) is said to be the last member of the family. Inhulata ogla, or the Prairie people. — This was considered the largest and probably the most important division of the Choctaw living in the region. Their principal settlement, Hatcha, was located on Pearl river. Other divisions, known by the people at Bayou Lacomb to have lived in the country a short distance northward, are: Tula'iksa' ogla, or Fall-in-bunches people. Chufaiksa' ogla, or Bunches-of-flies people.
Page 12 - If the skins are to be smoked, a process that renders them more durable, a hole a foot or more in depth is dug in which a fire is kept until a bed of hot ashes accumulates. On this are put pieces of rotten oak, no other wood being used for this purpose; these are not permitted to blaze, as the more smoke that arises the better it is for the skins. These, already tanned soft...
Page 8 - The quota allowed the bureau is distributed mainly to libraries and institutions of learning and to collaborators and others engaged in anthropological research or in instruction. ANNUAL REPORTS First annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-80 by JW Powell director [Vignette] Washington Government Printing Office 1881 Roy. 8°.