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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  borrowings. 
  He 
  expects 
  to 
  obtain 
  data 
  on 
  these 
  points 
  regarding 
  the 
  

   Shawnee 
  and 
  Potawatomi 
  also. 
  

  

  The 
  beginning 
  of 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  found 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  P. 
  Harrington, 
  

   ethnologist, 
  engaged 
  in 
  completing 
  his 
  bulletin 
  on 
  the 
  Kiowa 
  lan- 
  

   guage, 
  in 
  several 
  respects 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  remarkable 
  of 
  the 
  Amer- 
  

   ican 
  Indian 
  tongues. 
  Aside 
  from 
  the 
  phonetic 
  system, 
  with 
  its 
  un- 
  

   usual 
  frequency 
  of 
  long 
  vowels 
  and 
  diphthongs, 
  we 
  may 
  point 
  to 
  

   the 
  noun, 
  several 
  declensions 
  of 
  which 
  form 
  the 
  singular 
  by 
  adding 
  

   the 
  same 
  suffixes 
  which 
  other 
  declensions 
  use 
  for 
  forming 
  the 
  plural. 
  

   These 
  singulars 
  of 
  plural 
  form 
  are 
  doubtless 
  conceived 
  as 
  collective, 
  

   for 
  a 
  personal 
  pronoun 
  in 
  apposition 
  also 
  has 
  the 
  plural 
  form. 
  Thus 
  

   pronominal 
  agreement 
  arises 
  many 
  times 
  more 
  complicated 
  than 
  

   that 
  in 
  the 
  three-gendered 
  languages 
  of 
  Europe, 
  and 
  is 
  further 
  in- 
  

   volved 
  by 
  subjective, 
  objective, 
  and 
  indircctive 
  pronouns 
  largely 
  

   combining 
  to 
  form 
  a 
  single 
  syllable 
  — 
  a 
  very 
  terse 
  yet 
  involved 
  sys- 
  

   tem 
  of 
  speech. 
  A 
  number 
  of 
  Kiowa 
  and 
  Tanoan 
  songs 
  were 
  found 
  

   to 
  have 
  the 
  melody 
  following 
  in 
  exaggerated 
  form 
  the 
  intonation 
  of 
  

   the 
  spoken 
  language. 
  Thus 
  the 
  song 
  " 
  agoyopovi 
  navi 
  ha, 
  wimbo 
  

   winda 
  " 
  has 
  the 
  high 
  tones 
  of 
  its 
  words 
  also 
  high 
  pitched 
  in 
  the 
  song. 
  

   This 
  has 
  led 
  to 
  the 
  important 
  discovery 
  that 
  certain 
  melodies 
  in 
  in- 
  

   toned 
  languages 
  may 
  take 
  their 
  clue 
  from 
  the 
  intonation 
  of 
  the 
  

   words. 
  The 
  Kiowa 
  vocabulary 
  secured 
  is 
  quite 
  complete 
  and 
  forms 
  

   an 
  interesting 
  contribution 
  to 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  place 
  names, 
  animal 
  

   names, 
  and 
  plant 
  names 
  adopted 
  by 
  a 
  tribe 
  when 
  it 
  leaves 
  its 
  old 
  

   home 
  and 
  moves 
  to 
  a 
  new 
  region. 
  Mr. 
  Harrington 
  proceeded 
  at 
  the 
  

   close 
  of 
  July 
  to 
  California 
  to 
  continue 
  his 
  studies 
  of 
  the 
  Indians 
  of 
  

   the 
  Chumashan 
  area 
  of 
  that 
  State. 
  This 
  expedition 
  proved 
  fruitful 
  

   in 
  results 
  beyond 
  all 
  expectation. 
  Special 
  emphasis 
  was 
  laid 
  on 
  the 
  

   place 
  names, 
  material 
  culture, 
  and 
  language. 
  More 
  than 
  300 
  photo- 
  

   graphs 
  of 
  Indian 
  places 
  and 
  historic 
  landmarks 
  were 
  secured, 
  to- 
  

   gether 
  with 
  a 
  wealth 
  of 
  highly 
  interesting 
  and 
  important 
  data. 
  The 
  

   collecting 
  of 
  Indian 
  place 
  names 
  in 
  the 
  Eastern 
  States 
  was 
  neglected 
  

   until 
  too 
  late, 
  so 
  that 
  we 
  have 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  names 
  in 
  distorted 
  spelling 
  

   and 
  of 
  uncertain 
  etymology. 
  It 
  is 
  still 
  possible 
  to 
  obtain 
  full 
  data 
  

   in 
  many 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  West, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  scarcely 
  any 
  work 
  which 
  the 
  

   Bureau 
  can 
  undertake 
  which 
  is 
  more 
  important 
  or 
  urgent, 
  either 
  in 
  

   popular 
  interest 
  or 
  as 
  a 
  help 
  to 
  the 
  future 
  ethnologist, 
  historian, 
  or 
  

   archeologist. 
  

  

  Linguistic 
  study 
  is 
  peculiarly 
  important 
  in 
  this 
  area, 
  since 
  it 
  resur- 
  

   rects 
  past 
  culture 
  and 
  records 
  perishing 
  material 
  for 
  comparison 
  with 
  

   remote 
  languages. 
  Thirty 
  new 
  Ventureiio 
  songs 
  were 
  obtained 
  from 
  

   one 
  singer, 
  all 
  with 
  native 
  words. 
  The 
  technique 
  of 
  the 
  split-stick 
  

   accompaniment 
  and 
  the 
  dance 
  steps 
  were 
  faithfully 
  studied 
  and 
  the 
  

   words 
  were 
  exhaustively 
  compared 
  with 
  the 
  corresponding 
  prose 
  

   forms. 
  

  

  