Annual Reports, Volume 16

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1897
 

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Halaman cviii - Pilling — (Distributed only to collaborators) — Washington Government Printing Office 1885 4°. xl, 1135 p., 29 pi. (facsimiles). NOTE. Only 110 copies printed for the use of collaborators, 10 of them on one side of the sheet. It was' the intention to have this Bibliography form Volume X of the Contributions to North American Ethnology...
Halaman xcix - 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.
Halaman cvii - Powell, director — A collection of gesture-signs and signals of the North American Indians with some comparisons by Garrick Mallery brevet lieut. col. and formerly acting chief signal officer, US Army — Distributed only to collaborators — Washington Government Printing Office 1880 4°. 329 p.
Halaman cvi - Terms of relationship used by the Innuit : a series obtained from natives of Cumberland inlet, by WH Dall.
Halaman lxxx - American ethnology lost a bril•/ t? •/ liant student. Born in Baltimore October 31, 1848, he acquired his primary education in the schools of his native city. At an early age he evinced a marked precocity in the acquirement of language ; it is said that at 6 he learned the Hebrew alphabet, and ere he reached his eleventh year he could read the language with facility.
Halaman lxxxi - But the rigorous climate and the vicissitudes of early frontier life soon affected his health, which was never robust, and after serious attacks of illness in July, 1872, and early in 1873, he was compelled to abandon his mission work in August of the latter year, soon after he had acquired the ability to converse with the Indians without the aid of an interpreter.
Halaman ciii - P. 1111-1136. Fifteenth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1893-'94 by JW Powell director [Vignette] Washington Government Printing Office 1897 Roy.
Halaman lxiv - ... tents. Thus the symbolism of the Kiowa Indians elucidates the origin of several arts brought to perfection only among much more highly cultivated people; it represents a crude heraldry, a budding chronology, a nascent decorative art, and the germ of writing. Although remaining in the field, Mr Mooney made considerable progress during the fiscal year in the preparation of a memoir on the Kiowa calendar, though the manuscript will require revision as his studies approach maturity, after his return...
Halaman 78 - In size and grandeur of conception, they equal any of the present buildings of the United States, if we except the Capitol at Washington, and may without discredit be compared to the Pantheon and the Colosseum of the Old World.
Halaman lxxxii - By reason of the purity and unselfishness of his motives, and the warmth and sunshine of his amiable nature, he won the esteem of all who had the pleasure of meeting him, and, being ever kind, affable, and cheerful to his colleagues, ever willing to aid and advise them, James Owen Dorsey was sincerely and cordially loved and revered by all.

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