ATHAPASCAN LANGUAGES. 



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Matthews (W.) — ContiniuMl. 



fill 200 or 250 printeil quarto pat;e.s, and I have 

 about 10, 000 words in my diclionarj'. My cot 

 lection of texts and tr:*islatinns — ,soni;s, 

 prayers, myths, rittials,etc. -wouhl foiiuajjood- 

 aized volume of themselves. It will take time 

 and leisure to put them in shape, however." 



Dr. Washingtcm ^MatthiMvs was born in Kil- 

 liney, a suburb of Unblin, Ireland, July 17, 

 184.'5. His mother dyinj;, his father emigrated 

 to America while he was yet in his infancy, 

 nnfi, after extensive travel in America, settled 

 first in Wisconsin, then a territory, and later 

 in Iowa. He was gi-aduated in medicine at tlie 

 medical department of the State TJniversitJi' of 

 Iowa in tlie spring of 18»)4, and in 1888 received 

 the honorary degree of LL.II. from the same 

 university in recognition of his ])hilologic 

 studies. In 1864 he entered the United States 

 service as an acting assistant surgeon, and 

 served as such until the close of the war. In 

 the summer of ISfia he again entered the mili- 

 tary service and has continued therein until 

 the present time, having been commissioned 

 major and surgeon July 10, 1889 His service 

 has carried him over all the States and Terri- 

 tories west of the jSIissi8sip]ii and brought him 

 into contact with a majority of tlie tribes of 

 that extensive region. His first serious study 

 of the Indians began wlien he ascended tlie 

 Ui)per Missouri in 1805. In the autumn of that 

 year he went to Fort Berthold, Dakota, where 

 he came in contact with Arickarees, Hidatsas, 

 and Mandans. He resided, with some inter- 

 ruptions, in the neighborhood of these three 

 tribes for about six years, and gave special 

 attention to their languages and ethnography. 

 In the winter of 1870-71 his manuscripts and 

 notes on these tribes had assumed extensive 

 proportions; but on the 28th of January, 1871, 

 his quarters at Fort Bufiord were destroyed by 

 Are, and all his notes and manuscripts, witli a 

 valuable collection of books of early travel and 

 exiiloration on the upper Missouri, were con- 

 sumed. In 1872 he went east, and in 1873 pub- 

 lished the Grammar and Dictionary of the 

 Language of the Hidatsa. From !N^ew York he 

 went to California, prepared a second edition 

 of liis work, under the title of Etlinograpliy 

 and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians, which 

 was issued from the Government Printing 

 Office in 1877, and spent some five years in the 

 more remote parts of California and on cam- 

 paigns against hostile Indians, in the course of 

 which he traveled extensively through Neva<la, 

 Oregon, Idaho, and Washington, and met manj' 

 wild trib(^s whose languages and customs he 

 noted. In 1880 he went to Xew Mexico, where 

 he began to study the Navajo Indians. In 1884 

 he went to Washington, D. C, and remained 

 there on duty in the Army Medical Museum 

 until May, 1890. From Washington he made 

 two excursions into the Southwest in the pur- 

 suit of arcba-ologic and etiinographic investi- 

 gaticms— one in the interest of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, the other in tlie interest of the 

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Matthews (W.) — Contiuued. 



Hemenway Southwestern Archadogical Expe- 

 dition. While in the Army Medical Museum 

 his time was largely devoted to somatological 

 studies, particular attention being given totlio 

 largo collection of crania and other human 

 bones in tli<^ museum, and he has written nn 

 extensive illustrated nionograpli on "The 

 Human Bones of tlie Hemenway Collection,'' 

 which is yet uni>ublished. In 1890 he returned 

 to New Mexico, where he still remains. 



Mescalero Apache. Sec Apache. 



Midnooski. Sec Ahtinne. 



Mflhau ( />/•. John J. ) Vocabulary of the 

 Umpciua Valley people, Oref^ou. 



Manuscript, 3 unnumbered leaves, folio, 

 written on' both sides; in the library of tlie 

 Bureau of Ethnology. Collected during No- 

 vember, 1856. Recorded on one of the Smith- 

 sonian blanks of 170 words, equivalents of tlie 

 whole number being given. 



In the same library are two copies of tliis 

 vocabulary, both by Dr. Geo. Gibbs, in one of 

 which (where he designates the language as 

 Hewut) he follows Dr. Milhau's spelling, in the 

 other he uses an alphabetic notation of Iiis own. 

 A third copy is in the same library, made l)j^ 

 Dr. Roehrig for comparison with the Willopah 

 vocaltulary of Dr. Gibbs. 

 Mimbreno Apache. See Apache. 

 Montagnais: 



Bible history See Legoff (L.) 

 Catec h ism LegotF ( L . ) 



Catechism Perrault (C. O.) 



Catechism Tegreville (V. T.) 



Dictionary Petitot (E. F. S. J.) 



Dictionary V^gr6ville (V. T.) 



Grammar Legoft'(L.) 



Grammar Tegreville (V. T.) 



Grammatic treati.se Petitot (E. F. S. J.) 

 H;\-mns LegolF(L.) 



Hymns Perrault (C. O. ) 



Praj-er book Legoff (L.) 



Prayer book Perrault (C. O.) 



Sermons LegotI(L.) 



Songs V6gr6ville ( V. T.) 



Syllabary Perrault (C. O.) 



Ten commandments Legoff (L.) 

 Text Legoff (L.) 



Tribal names Petitot (E. F. S. J.) 



Vocabular.v Adam (L.) 



Words Petitot (E. F. S. J.) 



See also Athapascan ; Ohippewyan ; Tinn^. 

 Morgan (Lev^^Ls Henry). Smithsonian 

 Contributions to Knowledge. | 218 | 

 Systems | of | consanguinity and affin- 

 ity I of the I hujuan family. | By | 

 Lewis H. Morgan. | 



Washington city : | ])ublishod by the 

 Smithsonian institution. | 1871. 



Colophon : Published by tlie Smithsonian in- 

 stitution, I Washington city, | June, 1870. 



