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to the Cherokees, ever}' prominent peak or rock, and every 

 cove and noted bend in a stream having a distinctive nanie, 

 have now been obtained. For Georgia and a portion of Tennes- 

 see the names must be gathered chiefly from old Indians now 

 Hving in Indian territory. It may be noted tliat as a rule 

 the Cherokee and some other tribes have no names for rivers 

 or settlements. The name belongs to the district, and is applied 

 alike to the stream and to the town or momitain sitiiated within 

 it. When the Indians of a villiage leave it the old name 

 remains behind, and the village in its new location takes the 

 name attached to the ne^^' district. Each district along a 

 river has a distinct name, while the river as a whole has none, 

 the whole tendency in the language being to specialize. 



The last six weeks of the field season were spent by Mr. 

 Mooney in visiting various points in North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama, within the former 

 limits of the Cherokees, for the purpose of locating mounds, 

 graves, and other antiquities for an archeologic maj) of their 

 territory and to collect from former traders and old residents 

 materials for a historic sketch of the tribe. 



WORK OF MR. JEREMIAH CURTIN. 



Mr. Jeremiah Curtin s})ent July and August 1-28, 1889, a 

 various points on Klamath river, from Orleans Bar to Martin 

 Ferry, Humbolt county, California, in collecting myths and 

 reviewing vocabularies of the Weitspekan and Quoratean lan- 

 guages. From August 30 to September 10 he was at Blue 

 lake and Areata, Humlioldt county, California, engaged in 

 taking down a Wishoskan vocabulary and in collecting infor- 

 mation concerning the Indians of that region. Arriving in 

 Round Valley, Mendocino county, California, September 16, 

 he remained there till October 16, and took vocabularies of the 

 Yukian and Palailmihan languages. From Round Valley he 

 went to Niles, Alameda county, California, where he obtamed 

 partial vocabularies of three languages formerly spoken in that 

 region. Of these one was spoken at Suisun, another was 

 kinch-ed to the Mariposan, a third was Costanoan. On October 

 27 he an-ived in Redding, Shasta county, Cahfornia, where he 

 obtained a considerable addition to his material previousl}' col- 



