MUSKHOGEAN LANGUAGES. 



39 



Gatschet (A. S.) — Coutinued. 



Creek runs through the greater part of the 

 book, the Indian assistant (" Mister Liisli," a 

 pure Na'htchi) boina; able to turn Na'htchi into 

 Creok better than into any other hmguage. 



Creek Lauguage. | Inflectional para- 

 digm I of 1 ndfklla \ to strike. By Al- 

 bert S. Gatscliet. ] 1886. | 



Manuscript, 11. 1-133, 201-212, 301-303, 401-405, 

 501-503, folio. The intervening vacant leaves 

 ■wci-D left to be filled at some future time. Ob- 

 tained from George "W. Grayson, of Eufaula, 

 lud. T. 



Words, phrases and sentences | in 



the I Cha'hta language, i Collected in 

 October, 1886, at Trout Creek, j Cata- 

 houla Parish, Louisiana, | by [ Albert 

 S. Gatscliet. 

 Manuscript, 11 11. of a coi)y-book, 8m.4^. 



Names and terms from \ the j Ilitchiti 



language | obtained through Judge G. 

 W. Stidham | of Eufaula, Creek Na- 

 tion, I Ind. Terr, by Albert S. Gatschet 

 — Febr. 1886. 



Manuscript, pp. 1-3, foolscap. 



An ethnologic text, | ^vith glossary, 



in the | Hitchiti language j obtained 

 through Judge G. W. Stidham, of Eu- 

 faula, Creek Nation | lud. Ty. | by Al- 

 bert S. Gatschet— February 1887. 

 Manuscrli)t, pp. 1-9, foolscap. 



Words, phrases and grammatic ele- 

 ments \ of the i Chicasa lauguage ! ob- 

 tained from ; Jadson Dwight Collins, [ 

 delegate of the tribe to the U. S. Gov't, 

 I by : Albert S. Gatschet. | 1889. 



Manuscript; title verso notice 11. pp. 3-39 ; a 

 small quarto l)laulj. book of 20 11. or 40 pp. 



Eelation.ships, etc. pp. 3-5. — Parts of human 

 body, pp. G-IC— Animals, pp. 11-14.— Plants, 

 pp. lii-lT. — Terms of topogra])hy, celestial bod- 

 ies, etc. pp. 19-21. — Dwellings, manufactured 

 articles, etc. pp. 23-30. — Arts, professions, re- 

 ligion, pp. 32-33.— Adjectives, pp. 34-35. — Nu- 

 merals, p. 36.— Verba, pp. 37-39. 



Those manuscripts are in the library of the 

 Uure.iu of Ethnology. In transcribing this 

 material Mr. Gatschet has used the alphabet 

 employed by the Bureau, with such modifica- 

 tions or additions as were demanded by the lan- 

 guage. 



Albert Samuel G.atschet was born in St. Beat- 

 enberg, in the Bernese, Oberland, Switzerland, 

 October 3, 1832. His propedeutic education 

 was .acquired in the lyeeums of Ncuidiatel 

 (1843-45) and of Berne (1846 -'52), after which 

 lie followed courses in the universities of B(^rno 

 and Berlin (18:)2-'58). Ilis studies had for tlu^ir 

 object (ho ancient world in all its ])hasos of 

 religion, history, language, and art, aiul thereby 



Gatschet (A. S.) — Continued. 



bis attention was at an early day directed to 

 jdiilologic researches. In 1865 he began the 

 publication of a series of brief monographs 

 on the local etymology of his country, enti- 

 tled "Ortsetyiuologischo Forsciiungen aus der 

 Schweiz" (1865-"67). In 1807 he spent several 

 months in London pursuing antiquarian studies 

 in the British Museum. In 1868 he settled in 

 New York and became a contributor to v.arious 

 domestic and foreign jieriodicals, mainly on 

 scientific .subjects. Drifting into a more .itten- 

 tivo study of the American Indians, ho i)ub- 

 lished several compositions upon their lan- 

 guages, the most important of which is " Zwiilf 

 Spr.achen aus d(Mu Siidwesten Nordamorikas," 

 Weimar, 1876. This led to his being appointed 

 to the position of ethnologist in the United 

 States Geological Survey, undi'r Maj. John 

 W. Powell, in March, 1877, when ho removed to 

 Washington, and first employed himself in ar- 

 ranging the linguistic manuscripts of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, now the property of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology, which forms a part of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, ilr. Gatschet has 

 over since been actively connected with that 

 bureau. To increase its linguistic collections, 

 and to extend and intensify his own studies of 

 the Indian languages, ho has made extensive 

 trips of linguistic .and ethnologic exploiation 

 among the Indians of North Aineiiea. After 

 returning from a six months' sojourn among 

 the Klamatbs and Kalapuy.as of Oregon, set- 

 tled on both sides of the Cascade Ilange, ho 

 visited the Katab.i in South Carolina and the 

 Clia'htaand Shetimashaof Louisianain I851-'82, 

 the Kayowc, Comiiuche, Caddo, Naktcho, 

 Modoc, and other tribes iu the Indian Terri- 

 tory, the Tonkawe and Lipans in Texas, and 

 the Atakapa Indians of Louisiana in 1884-'85. 

 In 1883 he saw the Tlaskaltecs at Saltillo, 

 Mexico, a remnant of the Nahua race, brought 

 there about 1575 from Analnuic, and was the 

 first to discover the affinity of the Boloxi Lan- 

 guage with the Siouan family. Ho also com- 

 mitted to writing the Tunixka or Tonica lan- 

 guage of Louisiana, never before investigated, 

 and foiming a linguistic family of itself. Ex- 

 cursions to other parts of the country brouglit 

 to his knowledge other Indian languages, like 

 the Tusk.arora, C.anghnawaga, Penobscot, and 

 Karankawa. 



Mr. Gatschet is compiling an extensive report 

 embodying his researches among (lieKlaniatli- 

 Lake and Modoc Indians of Oregon, which will 

 form Vol. II of " Conti-ibution.s to North Amer- 

 ican Ethnology." Among tho tribes and lan- 

 guages discussed by him in separate publica- 

 tions are tho Timueua (Florida), Toiikawe 

 (Texas), Tiima (Califoruia, Arizona, ISIexico), 

 Chumeto (California), Beothuk (Newfound- 

 land), Creek and Hitchiti (Alabama). His 

 numerous publications .are scattered through 

 magazines and government leports, some being 

 contained iu tho Proceedings of the American 

 Philosophical Society, Philadi^lpbi.a. 



