Mythic dry-paintings of the Nav-
ajos.By
Dr.W. Matthews.
In
American
Naturalist,vol. 19,pp. 931-939, Philailflphi;!, 1885, 8°. (Consress.)Contains a
number
of Xavajo terms and propernaincspassim.Thi'
origin of
tlieUtes. A NaA^ajo
my
til.In
American
Antiquarian,vol.7,])p.271-274, Chieago,1885, 8^. (Bureauof Ethnolnjiy.)A number
ofXavajo words
andphra.ses.Navajo names
forphints.By Dr. W.
Matthews, U.
S.A.
In
American
Naturalist,vol.20,pp. 767-777, Philadelphia,1886, 8°. (Pilling.)Many Navajo words
with Englishmeanings
andexplanations.Some
deitiesand demon.s of the Navajos. By Dr. W. Matthews, U.
S.Army.
In
American
Naturalist,vol.20.pp.841-850, Philadelphia,1886, 8°.A number
ofNavajo words
andnames
of mythicpersonages,jf)ff««i?n.The mountain chant: a Navajo
cere-mony. By Dr. Washington Matthews, U.
S.A.
In
Bureau
of Ethnology, FifthAnn.
Rept.pp. 379-467,Washington, 1891,royal 8°. (Pil- ling.)
Original textsandtranslationsof songs, pp.
455-467,containtwenty-two songs and prayers with literal and free translations into Eng- lish.
— Numerous Navaj«
terms,includinglocal and mythic names, passim.Issuedseparatelj-,withtitle-page,asfollows
:
The
Imountain chant
| aNavajo ceremony
|by
|Dr. Washington Mat- thews, U.
S.A.
IExtract from the
fifthannnal report of the Bnrean of ethnol- ogy
I[Vignette]
|Washington
|Government
}<rinting office I1888
Covertitleasabove,half-titleverso blank1 1.noinsidetitle,contentspp. 381-382,illustra- tions p. 383, text pp. 385-467, royal 8^.
One hundred
copies issued.Linguisticcontentsasundertitlenextabove.
Copies seen;
Bureau
of Ethnology, Eames, Pilling.The prayer of a Navajo shaman. By Dr. Washington Matthews, U.
S. A.,Army medical mnsenm.
In
American
Antliropologist,vol. 1,pp.149- 170.Washington,18S8, 8°. (Pilling.)Tlie prayer in English(in55paragraphs), withinterlinear translationinNavajo,]ip. ir>l- 103.- (ilossary(127words), alphabeticby
Nav
ajowords.)>i).105-170.Issuedseparately,withtitle-page,asfollows:
Matthews (W.) —Continued.
The prayer
|of
|a Navajo shaman.
I
By
IDr. Washington Matthews,
|U.
S.
army.
|From the American Anthro-
pologist, Vol.I,No.
2, April, 1888.Washington, D.
C.: \.Judd
&,Det-
weiler, printers. |1888.Cover title as above, title as aboveverso blank11.text pp.5-26,plate, 8^.
Linguistics asundertitlenextabove,pji.7- 19,21-26.
Copiesseen: Pilling.
Navajo gambling songs. By Dr.
AVashington Matthews,
IT.S.army.
In
American
Anthropologist,vol.2, p]).1-19, Washington, 1889,8"^. (Pilling.)Contains twenty-oneshortsongsinNavajo, eachfollowed
by
translationandnotes.Issued separately, also, without cliange, (Pilling.)
Noqoilpi, the gambler: a Navajo myth.
In Journalof
American
Folk-Lore,vol.2,pp.89-94,Bostonand
New
York,1889, 8°. (Pilling.)A number
ofNavajo
terms,passim.Issued separately, also, without eliange.
(Pilling.)
The gentile system of the Navajo Indians.
InJournalof
American
Folk-Lore,vol.3,pp.89-110,Bostonand
New
York.1890, 8°. (Pilling.) ListoftheNavajo gentes(51),withmeanings
in English, pp. 103-104.— Phratries pftheNav- ajos(fromTallChanter, andasecond listfrom Capt. Bourke), p. 109.—
Many Navajo
terms passim.Issuedseparately,withtitle-page,asfollow.s
:
The gentile system
|of
|the NaA'ajo Indians
|by
|Washington Matthews, M.
D.,LL. D.
Imajor and surgeon.
United States army
|Delivered
asa Lecture before the Anthropological
|Society,
Washington, D.
C.[Boston and New York:
1890.]Half-titleon cover asabove,noinsidetitle;
text pp.89-110, 80.
Linguisticcontentsasundertitlenext above.
Copies seen: Pilling.
[Texts, grammar, and
dictiinKiryof the Navajo language.]
(')^Manuscript. Dr. Matthews,
who
isnow
(1892)stationed at Ft.Wingate, N. M.,is col- lecting material fora
monograph
on theNavajo Indians. Concerningthe linguistic portionhe wrotenieunder dateof Si'pteniber22,1891,as follows:
•'
My work
onthe Nav.ijolanguageisgrow- ing,butit isinsuch achaotic state asyetthat Ican not giveyouaverysatisfactoryaccount ofit. Ihave, I think,gramniaticmaterial toATHAPASCAN LANGUAGES. 65 Matthews (W.) — ContiniuMl.
fill 200or 250printeilquartopat;e.s,andIhave about 10,000wordsin
my
diclionarj'.My
cot lection of texts and tr:*islatinns—
,soni;s,prayers,myths,rittials,etc.
-wouhl
foiiuajjood- aizedvolume
ofthemselves. Itwilltaketime andleisuretoputthem
inshape,however."Dr.
Washingtcm
^MatthiMvswas
borninKil- liney, a suburbof Unblin, Ireland, July17,184.'5. Hismotherdyinj;, hisfatheremigrated
to
America
while hewas
yetinhis infancy, nnfi,after extensive travelinAmerica,settled firstinWisconsin,then aterritory,and later inIowa.He was
gi-aduated inmedicineattliemedical departmentof the StateTJniversitJi'of
Iowa
intliespringof18»)4,andin1888 received the honorary degreeof LL.II. from thesame
university in recognition of his ])hilologic studies. In1864he entered theUnitedStates service as an acting assistant surgeon, and servedassuch until the close ofthe war. In thesummer
ofISfiahe again entered the mili- tary service and has continuedtherein until the present time, having been commissioned majorand surgeon July10,1889 Hisservice has carriedhim
overallthe Statesand Terri- torieswestof thejSIissi8sip]iiandbroughthim
intocontact with a majorityoftlie tribes of that extensiveregion. Hisfirstseriousstudy ofthe Indians began wlien he ascendedtlie Ui)perMissouriin 1805. Intheautumn
of that yearhewent
toFortBerthold,Dakota,where
hecame
incontactwithArickarees, Hidatsas, andMandans. He
resided,withsome
inter- ruptions, in the neighborhood of these three tribes forabout six years, and gave special attentiontotheirlanguagesand ethnography.In thewinterof1870-71hismanuscripts and notes on these tribes
had assumed
extensive proportions; but onthe 28th ofJanuary,1871, hisquartersatFortBufiordwere destroyedby
Are,andall hisnotesand manuscripts,witlia valuable collection ofbooksof early traveland exiiloration on theupper Missouri,werecon- sumed. In1872he
went
east,andin1873pub- lished theGrammar
and Dictionary of theLanguage
of theHidatsa.From
!N^ewYork
hewent
to California,prepared asecond edition of liiswork, underthe titleof Etlinograpliy and PhilologyoftheHidatsa Indians,which was
issued from theGovernment
Printing Officein1877,and spentsome
fiveyearsinthemore
remoteparts of California and on cam- paignsagainst hostile Indians, in thecourseofwhich
hetraveled extensivelythroughNeva<la, Oregon,Idaho,andWashington, andmet
manj' wildtrib(^swhose
languagesand
customs he noted. In1880hewent
toXew
Mexico,where hebegantostudy theNavajo
Indians. In1884 hewent
to Washington,D.C,
and remained there on duty in theArmy
MedicalMuseum
until
May,
1890.From Washington
hemade two
excursionsintotheSouthwestinthe pur- suitof arcba-ologic andetiinographic investi- gaticms— one in the interest of theBureau
of Ethnology, the other in tlie interest of theATH 5
Matthews (W.) — Contiuued.
Hemenway
Southwestern Archadogical Expe- dition.While
in theArmy
MedicalMuseum
histime
was
largelydevotedtosomatological studies,particular attentionbeing giventotlio largo collection of crania and otherhuman
bonesin tli<^museum,
and he haswritten nn extensive illustrated nionograpli on"The Human
BonesoftlieHemenway
Collection,''which
isyetuni>ublished. In1890he returned toNew
Mexico,where
hestillremains.Mescalero Apache. SecApache.
Midnooski. SecAhtinne.
Mflhau
(/>/•.John
J.)Vocabulary of the Umpciua Valley people,
Oref^ou.Manuscript, 3
unnumbered
leaves, folio, written on'both sides; in the library oftlieBureau
of Ethnology. Collectedduring No- vember,1856. Recorded on oneofthe Smith- sonianblanksof170words, equivalentsoftliewhole
number
beinggiven.In the
same
library aretwo
copies of tliisvocabulary, both
by
Dr. Geo. Gibbs,in oneof which (where hedesignates the languageasHewut)
hefollowsDr.Milhau'sspelling,inthe otherhe uses analphabetic notation ofIiisown.A
thirdcopyisinthesame
library,made
l)j^Dr.Roehrig forcomparison withtheWillopah vocaltulary of Dr.Gibbs.
Mimbreno
Apache. SeeApache.Montagnais:
Bible history SeeLegoff(L.) Catechism LegotF(
L
.)
Catechism Perrault(C.O.) Catechism Tegreville (V. T.) Dictionary Petitot(E.F.S.J.) Dictionary V^gr6ville (V.T.)
Grammar
Legoft'(L.)Grammar
Tegreville(V. T.)Grammatic
treati.se Petitot(E.F.S.J.)H;\-mns LegolF(L.)
Hymns
Perrault(C.O.)
Praj-er
book
Legoff(L.) Prayer book Perrault(C.O.)Sermons LegotI(L.)
Songs V6gr6ville(V. T.) Syllabary Perrault(C.O.)
Ten commandments
Legoff(L.)Text Legoff(L.)
Tribal
names
Petitot(E.F.S.J.) Vocabular.vAdam
(L.)Words
Petitot(E.F.S.J.)SeealsoAthapascan;
Ohippewyan
;Tinn^.Morgan
(Lev^^LsHenry). Smithsonian Contributions
toKnowledge.
|218
|
Systems
|of
|consanguinity and
affin- ityI
of the
Ihujuan family.
|By
|Lewis H. Morgan.
|Washington
city:|
])ublishod by the Smithsonian
institution. | 1871.Colophon: PublishedbytlieSmithsonianin- stitution,
I
Washington
city, |June,1870.66 BIBLIOGKAPIIY OF THE Morgan
(L. 11.)— Coutiuued.
Titleon coveras above, insidetitleditTering from above in ini])riiitversoblank11.adver- tisementp. iii verso blank, preface; pp. v-ix versoblank,contentsi)p.xi-xii,text pp.1-583, indexi)p.085-590,14 ])lates, 4°.
Also formsvol. 17of SmitlisonianL'ontribii- tion.stoKnowledge.
Such
i.ssneshave no covertitle,buttlie generaltitleofthe serie.sand6 otherjirel.11.precedingthe insidetitle.
Chapter v, Sj'stem of relationship of the
Ganowanian
family continued. Athapasco-Apacho and
othernations(pp.230-253)includes thefollowing:A
.'jhortcomparative vocabulary (23 word.s) of the SlaveLake
Indians (from Kennicott),Beaver Indians (from Kennicott),Chepewyan, Dog
Rib,and Kutchin
(thethree latterfrom Richardson),p. 232.System
ofconsanguinityand affinityoftheGanowanian
family(pp. 291-382)includesthe following, collectedby Mr.Morgan
:Hare
In- dians (Tii-nii'-tin-ne), lines 65;Red Knives
(Tiil-sote'-e-na),lines66.
Also thefollowing;
Herdesty (W.L.),Relationshipsof theKut- chin(u-Loucheux,lines67.
Kennicott(R.), Relationships of the Slave L;ik(^Tndi;ins,lines64.
McDonald
(R.).Relationshipsof theTii-ktt- the,lines68.Copieg geen: Astor, British
Musum, Bureau
ofEthnology, Congress, Eames.Pilling,Trum-
bull.
At
the Squier sale,no.889,acopy sold for$5.50. Quaritch, no.12425,*priced acopy41.
Lewis
H.Morgan was
borninAurora,Cayuga
County, N. T.,November
21, 1818.Ho was
graduatedby Union
College,Schenectady,inthe classof1840. Returning fromcollegetoAurora, Mr.Morgan
joined asecret.societycomposed
of theyoung men
ofthevillageand known
astheGrand
OrderoftheIroquois. Thishadagreat influencenpon
his futurecareerand studies.The
orderwas
instituted for sportand
amuse- ment,but itsorganizationwas
modeled on the governmental systemoftheSix Natiou-s; and, chieflyunder Mr. Morgan'sdirectionandlead- ership,the objects oftheorderwereextended, if not entirely changed, and its purposes improved.To become
betteracquainted with thesocialpolity oftheIndians,young Morgan
visitedtheaboriginesremaininginNew
York, amere
remnant,biityetretainingto a great extenttheirancientlawsand customs; and hewent
80 far astobeadoptedasamember by
the Senecas. Before the council oftheorder, in the years1844, 1845,and1846,heread:iseriesof paperson the Iroquois,which
were published under the nom, deplume
of"Skenandoah."
Mr.
Morgan
died in Rochester, N.Y.,Decem-
ber17,1881.[Morice {Pere Adrieu Gabriel).] The Nevr
IMethodical, Easy and Complete
I
Dene syllabary.
.[Stuart's
Lake miKsjou,
J3. (J,1«!)0.j
Morice
(A.(J.)— C'ontiimod.
2 separate leaves, verso of the first one blank,8°.
On
thefirstleafisgiven thesyllabarywith exijlanatory notes; thesecond presents'"Some
oftheAdvantages
oftheNew
Syllabary." See thefacsimilesonthe three following pages.Copieg Keen: Eann^s, Pilling,Wellesley.
[ ]
A New
IImproved A Easy Alpha- bet or Syllabary
| suj;ge.sted tothe
" Cherokee mition
" |By a Friend
|and earnest sympathizer.
|
Stuart's Lake Mission Print No.
9.[1890.]
1leaf,versoblank,8^.
"
The
soundsandorthograj)hy of theabove arethose of theCherokc^eAlphabet suchas reproducedinPilling"sIroquoianBibliograi)hy.Should they be incompleteor defective,the
new
Syllabarycan easilybecompletedorcorrected out oftheDen6
Alphabet,fromwhich
it is extracted."Copies teen.- Eames,Pilling,Wellesley.
[ ]
Preces
|Post privatam Missam"
recitandie. |
[One
line syllabiccharac-
ters.][Stuart's
Lake mission,
B. C. 1890.J1leaf,versoblank,8^.
A
jirayer in theD6ne
language, syllabic characters, followedby
aprayerin Latin,roman
characters.Copieg teen; Eames,Pilling,"Wellesley.
[Two
lines syllabiccharacters.]
|
[Picture of the virgin and
child.] |[Three
linessyllabic characters.]
[Stuart's Lake mission,
B. C. 1890.]Transliteration:
Pe
tcestlces oetsotoel6h|JeziKli hwoeztli6thwotsoen|
Hwol
1890t nahwotizoet|Nakraztli et|pel
Molisceyinla.
Translation: "With paper one-learns|Jesus Christwas-bornthensince|
"With-it 1890 times it-annually-revolved [year] |Stuart's-Lake there|father Morice made-it.
Titleverso blank 1 1. text (entirelyin the DfinAlanguage
and
in syllabic characters) pp.3-32, sq. 16°. See the fac-similo of thetitle- page onp.70of this bibliography.
The
firstbook
printedin these characters.Itisa sort ofprimer containing spelling
and
elementary readinglessons.Copieg seen: Eames,Pilling,Wellesley.
[Two
lines syllabiccharacters.]
|
[Oblate
seal.]| [Tliree lines sj'llabic
characters.]
[Stuart's
Lake mission,
B. C. 1890.]Transliteration: Liekateshisyaz keiskcez.|
JeziKli hwceztli ethwotsa-n|
[Seal.]
|
Hwo
18901nahwotizd-t|Nakraztii ^t|pel
Molis<jByiijlft,