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Show AUTHORITIES FOR SIGNS CITED. 17 including Southern Dakotas, Utes, Shoshoni, Arapahos, Crows, Pani, and Apaches. This is contained in " The City of the Saints," New York, 1862. 6. A manuscsipt list in the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology, contributed by Brevet Col. JAMES S. BBISBIN, Major Second Cavalry, United States Army, probably prepared in 1878- 79, and chiefly taken from the Crows, Shoshoni, and Sioux. 7. A list prepared in July, 1879, by Mr. FRANK H. CUSHING, of the Smithsonian Institution, from continued interviews with Titchkemdtski, an intelligent Cheyenne, now employed at that Institution, whose gestures were analyzed, their description as made dictated to a phonographer, and the more generic signs also photographed as made before the camera. The name of the Indian in reference to this list is used instead of that of the collector, as Mr. Cushing has made other contributions, to be separately noted with his name for distinctiveness. 8. A valuable and illustrated contribution from Dr. WASHINGTON MATTHEWS, Assistant Surgeon United States Army, author of " Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians," & c, lately prepared from his notes and recollections of signs observed during his long service among the Indians of the Upper Missouri and the plains. 9. A report of Dr. W. J. HOFFMAN, from observations among the Teton Dakotas while Acting Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, and stationed at Grand River Agency, Dakota, during 1872- 73. 10. A special contribution from Lieut. H. R. LEMLY, Third United States Artillery, compiled from notes and observations taken by him in 1877 among the Northern Arapahos. 11. Some preliminary notes lately received from Rev. TAYLOR F. EALY, missionary among the Zufii, upon the signs of that body of Indians. 12. Similar notes from Rev. A. J. HOLT, Denison, Tex., respecting the Comanche signs. 13. Similar notes from Very Rev. EDWARD JACKER, Pdlnte St Ignace, Mich., respecting the Ojibwa. 14. A special list from Rev. J OWEN DORSEY, missionary at Omaha Agency, Nebraska, from observations lately made among the Ponkas and Omahas. 2 s L |
