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the head ; so did the Choctaws, the Catawbas, and some of the 

 Dacotahs. I know of no Mongolic or Tungusic peoples — the 

 only others with whom grammatical forms permit us to compare 

 the Iroquois, Dacotahs and Choctaws — who practised this arti- 

 ficial compression of the skull. All these facts tell powerfully in 

 favour of a peninsular derivation. Add to this the fact that the 

 three American families were sun worshippers, and that their 

 religion thus agrees with that of the Koriaks, Aiuos and Japa- 

 nese ; that Arioski, the Koriak war-god, corresponds to the 

 Wyandot-Iroquois Areskoui, and the Japanese Jebisu, to the 

 Choctaw or Muskogulge Eefeekesa, and the evidence becomes 

 irresistible. 



In one of the families under consideration, tribal names serve 

 to confirm the connection with Peninsular peoples. This is the 

 Cherokee-Choctaw. In the Cherokees we readily recognize the 

 Koriaks, who call themselves Koraeki, and in the Choctaws it is 

 not hard to find the Tshekto, as the so-called Tchuktchi are 

 properly designated. Now the Koriak-Tchuktchis and the 

 Choctaws agreed in flattening the head, as we have already seen. 

 They also agree in being great lovers of manly sports, and I 

 cannot but think that '• the game resembling prisoners bars " 

 with which Martin Sauer in his account of the Tchuktchi con- 

 nects "their dexterity in throwing stones from a sling," is the 

 well known " ball play " or '•' lacrosse," in which the Choctaws 

 specially excel, but which is also common to the Iroquois and 

 Dacotahs. A game closely resembling lacrosse is played in Japan. 



There are many Koriak-Tchuktchi words in Choctaw and 

 Cherokee, such as the Tchuktchi ischtamat 4, talilimat 5, 

 awinljak 6, holle 10, in which we recognize the Choctaw ushta, 

 tahlajn, liannali and pohoU. Others are annakh father, the 

 Choctaw imki/ ; ikahlik fish, the Choctaw kuUo and Cherokee 

 agaida ; ijuk foot, the Choctaw iyi ; nujak hair, the Choctaw 

 nutakhish] uivijuk night, ihe Muskogulge nennak ; kink and 

 wegim river, the Choct.iw hucha, okhina ; Qiiatschak sun, the 

 Chickasaw neetakhasseJi : utut tree, the Muskouulo'e Utah ; 

 aganak woman, the Cherokee ugeyung ; imagh sea, the Cherokee 

 amaquaohe ; imako tomorrow, the Choctaw onahe, &c. But so 

 far as I am able to judge from the materials at my disposal, the 

 Cherokee-Choctaw vocabulary has greater affinity to the Japa- 

 nese and Loo Choo than to the Koriak-Tchuktchi. Thus, in 

 Japanese the words denoting bone and boat or canoe are nearly 



