1 8 ETHNO-BO7ANY OF THE COAHUILLA INDIANS 



Zwei Sprachen im siidlichen Neu-Californien, gelegen nordlich uber San 

 Diego, am Canal de S. Barbara, habe ich von hoher Wichtigkeit gefunden : 

 ich habe in dem Kizh oder der Sprache der Mission San Gabriel, in 

 etwa 34 N. B., und in der Netela oder Mission San Juan Capistrano, in 

 33/4, zwei Glieder meines sonorischen Sprachstammes ausgestaltet mit 

 aztekischen Sprachstoff, endeckt. 1 



Foremost among the enthusiastic workers in California ethnology 

 was Mr. Alexander O. Taylor. In February, 1860, Mr. Taylor began to 

 edit, in a weekly paper published in San Francisco, The California 

 Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, of which Colonel Warren was the 

 editor and publisher, a department entitled the "Indianology of Cali- 

 fornia," and for over three years in these columns, with nearly every 

 number of the paper, was published a large amount of very valuable 

 material on the California Indians and early California history, the 

 result of Mr. Taylor's persistent gleanings and his own excellent obser- 

 vations. In this series were published the very valuable works noted 

 above, Mr. Hugo Reid's "Indians of Los Angeles County" and Robin- 

 son's " Boscana's Chinigchinich" Mr. Taylor published here a num- 

 ber of excellent vocabularies, gathered by himself at the different mis- 

 sions, two of which we must notice. No. 9 is a vocabulary of about 

 130 words, besides a few numerals and phrases taken from an old 

 Christian Indian about sixty years old at the mission San Gabriel.* 

 No. 10 was taken at San Luis Rey mission in April, 1856, but it is not 

 the vocabulary of a Luiseno Indian at all but of some visiting Diegeno 

 Indian from farther south. Following it is one secured from an 

 Indian from San Miguel mission of Lower California. The frequent 

 references in this essay to these publications of Mr. Taylor will suggest 

 to what an extent we are indebted to him as a gatherer and preserver 

 of what would otherwise have been well-nigh inaccessible material. 



In 1875 there were collected by Dr. Oscar Loew vocabularies from 

 various Shoshonian tribes ; from the Pah-Uta and Chemehuevi in 

 Nevada and California, and from the few surviving Indians at San 

 Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano, as well as from the Coahuilla and 

 Serrano Indians near San Bernadino. In 1878 Dr. Eric Bergland 

 secured a vocabulary from the Luiseno Indians about San Luis Rey. 

 This new material, together with much more from the southwest tribes, 

 was studied by Mr. Albert S. Gatchet and printed in an appendix to 

 Vol. VII of Archeology, of the Reports of the U. S. Geological Survey 

 (Washington, 1879), "Classification of Western Indian Dialects." 



i Spuren, etc., p. 546. 2 California Farmer ^ Vol. XIII, p. 90. 



