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gate, N. Mex., and in the Canon de Chelly, Arizona. These are 

 of much value in supplementing the surveys, descriptions, and 

 explorations of the region. 



LINGUISTIC FIELD WORK. 

 WORK OF MR. J. O. HORSEY. 



Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, in September, 1882, visited the res- 

 ervation of the Six Nations, on Grand River, Upper Canada, 

 and gathered some linguistic material pertaining to the Tutelo, 

 a tribe recently assigned by Horatio Hale to the Siouan family. 



In November he went to the Indian Territory for the 

 purpose of spending some time among the Kansa, Osage, 

 and Kwapa, tribes speaking dialects related to that of the 

 Ponka and Omaha, with which he is familiar. On his return 

 to Washington, in February, 1883, he brought the following 

 material : 



Kansa. — Most of the pages of the second edition of the In- 

 troduction to the Study of Indian Languages were filled. He 

 also obtained grammatical notes ; material for a dictionary of 

 about three thousand words; texts, consisting of myths, his- 

 torical papers, and letters (epistles) dictated in the original by 

 the Indians, to be prepared with interlinear translations ; crit- 

 ical notes, and free English translations; an account of the 

 social organization of the tribe, with names of gentes, proper 

 names of members of each gens, &c, the kinship system and 

 marriage laws, with charts; an account of the mourning and 

 war customs, with a curious chart (one similar being used bv 

 the Osage) prepared by the leading war chief of the tribe, 

 from one inherited from his grandfather; a partial classifica- 

 tion of the flora and fauna known to the tribe; and maps 

 drawn by the natives, with native local names. 



Osage. — From the Osage similar information was obtained, 

 with the addition of accounts of a secret order of seven degrees 

 connected with the gentile or clan organization of the tribe and 

 serving as the sole custodian of the tribal traditions. Each 

 of the twenty-one Osage gentes has its peculiar tradition, which 

 is chanted by the principal man of that gens but only in the 



