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of these tracings were assembled to form a Zuhi alphabet, an album 

 of the sounds' own pictures. 



The work established what had long been suspected by me, that 

 there is a definite but distant genetic connection between the Taos 

 and Zuhi forms of speech, and that this connection also extends to the 

 language of Acoma and other Keresan dialects. Whether anything still 



Fig. 166. — Airs. Fannie Orcutt, aged Karuk Indian, Salmon 

 Billy's younger sister, holding her white great-grandson. 

 (Photograph by J. P. Harrington.) 



more closely related to the Zuhi will be discovered in the great field of 

 American languages remains for the future to reveal. The phonetic 

 systems of Taos and Zuhi and many of the grammatical features are 

 as much alike as children of the same family, and come from the same 

 cradle of old Indian linguistic inheritance. 



On the Klamath River in northern California, in a wilderness of 

 soapstone formation mountains overgrown with conifers and brush 



