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  REPOET 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
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  and 
  fundamental 
  connection 
  with 
  one 
  group 
  of 
  Plains 
  Indians, 
  

   namely, 
  the 
  Kiowa. 
  The 
  Taos 
  language, 
  which 
  was 
  the 
  language 
  of 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  groups 
  which 
  contributed 
  to 
  the 
  composition 
  of 
  

   Taos, 
  has 
  been 
  determined 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  dialect 
  of 
  Kiowa, 
  which 
  seems 
  to 
  

   indicate 
  that 
  this 
  contingent 
  of 
  the 
  Taos 
  population 
  at 
  least, 
  like 
  the 
  

   Kiowas 
  themselves, 
  once 
  lived 
  in 
  the 
  northern 
  region 
  of 
  the 
  Rocky- 
  

   Mountains, 
  probably 
  in 
  what 
  is 
  now 
  Canada. 
  

  

  Grasping 
  still 
  another 
  opportunity 
  to 
  check 
  the 
  old 
  and 
  new 
  

   information 
  on 
  this 
  region, 
  studies 
  on 
  the 
  related 
  Karuk 
  Indians 
  of 
  

   the 
  central 
  Klamath 
  River 
  region 
  of 
  California 
  were 
  resumed 
  during 
  

   field 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  coast 
  and 
  were 
  continued 
  throughout 
  the 
  year, 
  

   resulting 
  in 
  an 
  accumulation 
  of 
  carefully 
  analyzed 
  material, 
  a 
  large 
  

   part 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  now 
  ready 
  for 
  publication. 
  The 
  work 
  consists 
  of 
  

   many 
  divisions 
  of 
  information, 
  including 
  the 
  grammar 
  of 
  the 
  lan- 
  

   guage, 
  its 
  sounds, 
  its 
  peculiar 
  musical 
  intonations, 
  and 
  the 
  system 
  of 
  

   long 
  and 
  short 
  consonants 
  and 
  vowels 
  ; 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  tribe, 
  which 
  

   remained 
  intact 
  and 
  unspoiled 
  up 
  to 
  1850 
  ; 
  the 
  census, 
  with 
  the 
  peculiar 
  

   old 
  personal 
  names; 
  the 
  villages, 
  which 
  were 
  strung 
  out 
  along 
  the 
  

   river 
  and 
  its 
  tributary 
  creeks; 
  the 
  construction 
  of 
  the 
  living 
  houses 
  

   and 
  sweat 
  houses, 
  and 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  manufactures, 
  and 
  

   the 
  process 
  of 
  m^aking 
  the 
  objects, 
  all 
  in 
  Indian; 
  the 
  social 
  life, 
  an 
  

   organization 
  without 
  chiefs; 
  the 
  great 
  festivals 
  and 
  the 
  various 
  

   dances; 
  feuds, 
  wars, 
  and 
  peace 
  making; 
  sucking 
  and 
  herb 
  doctors, 
  

   and 
  the 
  sources 
  of 
  their 
  power 
  ; 
  medicine 
  formulas 
  and 
  myths, 
  all 
  in 
  

   the 
  language, 
  for 
  any 
  other 
  record 
  of 
  them 
  would 
  be 
  inadequate. 
  

   This 
  information 
  is 
  accompanied 
  by 
  photographs 
  and 
  phonograph 
  

   records 
  and 
  is 
  rapidly 
  approaching 
  completion 
  for 
  publication 
  as 
  a 
  

   report 
  of 
  the 
  bureau. 
  

  

  Early 
  in 
  June 
  Mr. 
  Harrington 
  went 
  to 
  Chaco 
  Canyon, 
  N. 
  Mes., 
  

   for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  making 
  further 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  Pueblo 
  Indian 
  lan- 
  

   guages, 
  notably 
  the 
  relation 
  of 
  Zuni 
  and 
  Keresan 
  to 
  the 
  newly 
  

   discovered 
  Kiowan 
  family. 
  Cooperating 
  with 
  students 
  of 
  the 
  Uni- 
  

   versity 
  of 
  New 
  Mexico 
  attending 
  the 
  university 
  summer 
  school 
  being 
  

   held 
  at 
  Chaco 
  Canyon 
  under 
  the 
  joint 
  auspices 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  University 
  

   and 
  the 
  School 
  of 
  American 
  Research, 
  a 
  minute 
  comparison 
  was 
  

   made 
  of 
  the 
  Taos 
  and 
  Zuili 
  languages, 
  resulting 
  in 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  

   the 
  genetic 
  relationship 
  of 
  these 
  two 
  languages, 
  a 
  relationship 
  which 
  

   can 
  be 
  traced 
  through 
  hundreds 
  of 
  words 
  of 
  similar 
  sound 
  and 
  

   identical 
  construction, 
  which 
  was 
  long 
  ago 
  hinted 
  at 
  by 
  the 
  discovery 
  

   of 
  such 
  words 
  as 
  lana, 
  big, 
  and 
  papa, 
  older 
  brother, 
  which 
  are 
  the 
  

   game 
  in 
  sound 
  and 
  meaning 
  in 
  both 
  languages. 
  About 
  200 
  kymo- 
  

   graph 
  tracings 
  were 
  made. 
  Similar 
  genetically 
  related 
  words 
  and 
  

   features 
  were 
  also 
  discovered 
  in 
  the 
  Keresan 
  language. 
  Cooperating 
  

   in 
  this 
  work 
  were 
  Miss 
  Sara 
  Goddard, 
  Miss 
  Clara 
  Leibold, 
  Miss 
  Anna 
  

  

  