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Show 86 INDIAN LINGUISTIC FAMILIES. < Kolooch, Latham in Trans. Philolog. Soc. Lond., n, 31- 50, 1846 ( tends to merge Kolooch into Esquimaux). Latham in Jour. Eth. Soc. Lond., 1,163,1848 ( compared with Eskimo language.). Latham, Opuscula, 259, 276, 1860. = Koluschians, Prichard, Phys. Hist. Mankind, v, 483, 1847 ( follows Gallatin). Scouler ( 1846) in Jour. Eth. Soc. Lond., I, 231, 1848. < Koluch, Latham, Nat. Hist. Man, 294,1850 ( more likely forms a subdivision of Eskimo than a separate class; includes Kenay of Cook's Inlet, Atna of Copper River, Koltshani, Ugalents, Sitkans, Tungaas, Inkhuluklait, Magimut, Inkalit; Digothi and Nehanni are classed as " doubtful Koluches"). = Koloschen, Berghaus( 1845), Physik. Atlas, map 17,1848. Ibid., 1852. Buschmann, Spuren der aztek. Sprache, 680, 1859. Berghaus, Physik. Atlas, map 72, 1887. = Kolush, Latham, El. Comp. Phil., 401, 1862 ( mere mention of family with short vocabulary). = Kaloshians, Dall in Proc. Am. Ass., 375,1885 ( gives tribes and population). X Northern, Scouler in Jour. Roy. Geog. Soc. Lond., xi, 218,1841 ( includes Koloshes and Tun Ghasse). X Haidah, Scouler, ibid, 219, 1841 ( same as his Northern). = Klen- ee- kate, Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 489,1855. = Klen- e- kate, Kane, Wanderings of an Artist, app., 1859 ( a census of N. W. coast tribes classified by language). = Thlinkithen, Holmberg in Finland Soc., 284,1856 ( fide Buschmann, 676,1859). = Thl nkets, Dall in Proc. Am. Ass., 268,269,1869 ( divided into Sitka- kwan, Stahkin-kwan, " Yakutats"). = riinkets, Dall in Cont. N. A. Eth., 1, 36,1877 ( divided into Yakutats, Chilkaht-kwan, Sitka- kwan, Stakhin'- kwan, Kygah'ni). = Tlilinkeet, Keane, App. Stanford's Comp. ( Cent, and So. Am.), 460,462,1878 ( from Mount St. Elias to Nass River; includes Ugalenzes, Yakutats, Chilkats, Hoodnids, Hoodsinoos, Takoos, Auks, Kakas, Stikines, Eeliknus, Tungass, Sitkas). Bancroft, Nat. Races, m, 562. 579, 1882. = Thlinkit, Tolmieand Dawson, Comp. Vocabs., 14,1884 ( vocab. of Skutkwan Sept; also map showing distribution of family). Berghaus, Physik. Atlas, map 72,1887. = Tlinkit, Dall in Proc. Am. Ass., 375,1885 ( enumerates tribes and gives population). Derivation: From the Aleut word kolosh, or more properly, kaluga, meaning " dish," the allusion being to the dish- shaped lip ornaments. This family was based by Gallatin upon the Koluschen tribe ( the Tshinkitani of Marchand), " who inhabit the islands and the adjacent coast from the sixtieth to the fifty- fifth degree of north latitude." In the Koluschan family, Gallatin observes that the remote analogies to the Mexican tongue to be found in several of the northern tribes, as the Kinai, are more marked than in any other. The boundaries of this family as given by Gallatin are substantially in accordance with our present knowledge of the subject. The southern boundary is somewhat indeterminate owing to the fact, ascertained by the census agents in 1880, that the Haida tribes extend somewhat farther north than was formerly supposed and occupy the southeast half of Prince of Wales Island. About latitude 56°, or the mouth of Portland Canal, indicates the southern limit of the family, and 60°, or near the mouth of Atna River, the northern limit. Until recently they have been supposed to be exclu- |