184 



ADDENDA TO THE 



Gatigwanasti [Belt] — Continued. 



orvation in tlte autumn of 1888, anil now in tlic 

 library of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



Gatigwanasti, also known as Wilnoti, tho 

 autlior of thi.s valuable collection, ■was one of 

 tlu'ir most noted doctors and conjurors. He 

 died in the spring of 1887; the manuscript 

 was obtained f'oni his sou. The formulas are 

 well written in bold characters. 

 Grasserie (Raonl de la). Etudes | de | 

 graniinaire coinpar(5e | Des | divisions 

 de la liugiii.sti(iii(' | i)ar | llaoul dc la 

 Gras.serie | Docteur en Droit | .Inge au 

 tribunal do Reuues, | Meiubre de la So- 

 ci^t6 de Linguistique de Paris. ] 



Paris I Maisonneuve et Ch. Leclerc, 

 <?ditenrs | 25, quai Voltaire, 25. j l^h'S. 



Printed cover as above, dedication verso 

 blank 11. title as above verso blank 1 1. test 

 pp. 1-1C4, 8°. — A section entitled " Morphologie 

 lexicologique, " pp. 87-108, contains a lew words 

 in Xahuatl, p. 91 ; Dacotah, pp. 91-92 ; Cri, p. 92 ; 

 Cliippoway, p. 9.3; Abenaqui, p. 93 ; Cherokee, 

 pp. 105-106 ; Lenape, p. 107; Escjuimaud, p. 108. 



Cojncii seen : Gatschet. 



Etudet) I dc | graiuniaire coinpardc | 



De la catdgorie dii temps | par | Raonl 

 de la Grasserie | Docteur en Droit | 

 Juge an tribunal de Reunes, | Menibre 

 de la SocictedeLinguistiquedeParis. | 



Paris I Maisonneuve et Cli. Leclerc, 

 <5di tours | 25, qua! Voltaire, 25. | 18H8. 



Printed cover as above, dedication verso 

 blank 1 1. title as above verso blank 1 1. text pp. 

 1-195,1 ]). additions .ind corrections, 8^. — Tho 

 author makes use of many North American lan- 

 guages— Aleut, Algonkin, Creek, Dakota, Es- 

 kimo, Iroquois, Maya, Nahuatl, Sahaptin, etal.; 

 but the material pertaining to any one of them 

 is meager and soattered. 



Copies seen: Oiitschet. 

 Hale (Horatio). Thedev^elopnicnt oflan- 

 guage. By Horatio Hale. 



In Canadian Institute, Proe. third series, 

 vol. 6, pp. 92-13-1, Toronto, 1888, 8^. 



General remarks concerning the Iroquois lan- 

 guage, pp. 125-12C. — Iroquois terms expressive 

 of abstractions, p. 129. 



Eor separate issue sec p. 76 of this biblio- 

 graphy. 



Huron folk-lore. I. — Cosniogonic 



myths. The good and evil minds. 



In Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 1, pp. 

 177-183, Boston and New York, 1888, 8°. (Bu- 

 reau of Ethnology, Pilling.) 



Derivation of the names Wendat and lluron, 

 p. 177.— Remarks concerning the Huron lan- 

 guage, with a few words thereof, ]>. 178.— 

 M(!;uiings of two ITuron words, p. 181. 

 Hewitt (.John Napoleon Brinton). TIio 

 meaning of En-kwO-Leri'-we in tho Iro- 

 quoian langua.ges. 



Hewitt (J. N. B.)— Continued. 



Ill The American Anthroj)ologist, vol. 1, pp. 

 323-324, Washington, 1888, 8°. (Pilling, Pow- 

 ell.) 



For a note by Mr. Hewitt on lro(]uois verbs, 

 see p. 340 of the same volume. 



[Linguistic material in the Cayuga 



language. 1888.] 



Manuscripts in the librarj' of the Bureau of 

 Etiuiology: six myths, as detailed below dic- 

 tated l)y Mr. James Jamieson, of tho Grand 

 Biver Reserve, Canada, in September and 0('- 

 tober, 1888. Au interlinear litor.al English 

 translation lias been made by Mr. Hewitt, and 

 notes on and a fiee translation of the whole are 

 in progress. 



1. Forked Mountain, a tale of tho Cayugas, 

 40 foolscap pp. 



2. Onr grandmother — i.e., the moon, 4 fools- 

 cap lip. 



3. Hip, a mythic spirit or demon of lechery, 

 5 foolscap p)). 



4. The great serpent, its ravages and how it 

 was killed, 4 foolscap pp. 



!i. Thunder conducts a woman to the upper 

 side of the sky, where dwell the dead, 4 fools- 

 cap pp. 



C. Tlie 01 igin of the bodily aclies and pains of 

 mankind, and the cause of the sharp-voiced 

 thunder, 9 foolscap pp. { 



[Linguistic material in tho Onondaga 



language. 1888.] 



Manuscripts in tho library of the Bure.au of 

 Ethuohigy : three myths, as detailed below, col- 

 lected from Mr. Johu.Buck, Six Nations Coun- 

 cil Fire-keeper, Gr.md River, Canada, in Octo- 

 ber, 1838. An interlinear literal translation of 

 each, in English, has already been made by Mr. 

 Hewitt, and a free translation will be added. 



1. The tree of language, 4 f.mlscap pp. 



2. Cre.ntion, 45 foolscap pp. 



3. The formation of the League of tho Iro- 

 quois, .and the record of the wanqjum strings 

 and belts relating to the acts .and principles of 

 tho Confederacy, with many of the laws, pre 

 cei)ts, rites, and ceremonies of the League, 

 comprising tho greater part of the so-called 

 Book of Rites, 71 foolscap pp. 



[Linguistic material in thcTiiscarora 



language. 1888.] 



Manuscript's in the library of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology : fifty-five legends (detailed below), 

 most of them dictated by Mr. Joseph Williams, 

 of the Tiiskarora Reserve, N. Y., in August 

 and September, 1888. Literal and free English 

 translations by Mr. Hewitt are being m.ade. 



1. Tlie origin of the "Great Medicine," 

 squashes, and corn, 3 pp. 



2. The virgin or maid who, conceived by one 

 of the great serpents, metamorphosed into the 

 form of a beautiful young man, and wlio after- 

 ward gave birth to a son, sired by one of the 

 S(ui8 of thunder, 7 pp. 



3. How one of the great serpents was killed, 



pp. 



