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ton's The King' s Highway. Into the Mas- 

 sachuset ilialect of the Algonquian stock 

 Rev. John Eliot translated in 1664Eaxter'H 

 Call to the Unconverted, in 1665 Bayly's 

 Practice of Piety, about 1687 the Rev. \V. 

 Perkins' Six Principles of Religion, and 

 in 1689 Shepard's Sincere Convert. A 

 Geography for Beginners was published 

 in Chippewa in 1840, and in Santee Da- 

 kota in 1876. In 1839 the Rev. C. A. 

 Goodrich's Child's Book of the Creation 

 was translated into Choctaw by the Rev. 

 L. S. Williams. The civilized tribes of 

 Indian Territory, with the aid of the 

 Cherokee and adapted alphabets, have 

 published many laws, text-books, etc., in 

 the native languages. 



Exclusive of occasional texts, more or 

 less brief, in native languages, to be found 

 in the periodical literature of anthropol- 

 ogy, in ethnological and linguistic mono- 

 graphs, books of travel and description, 

 etc., there is accumulating a considerable 

 literature of texts by accredited men of 

 science and other competent observers. 

 The Chimmesyan stock is represented by 

 Boas' Tsimshian Texts (Bull. 27, B. A. E., 

 1902); the Chinookan bv Boas' Chinook 

 Texts { Bull. 20, B. A. E., 1904), and Kath- 

 lamet Texts ( Bull. 26, 1901 ) : the Salishan 

 bv Teit and Boas' Traditions of the 

 Thompson River Indians (1898); the 

 AVakashan (Kwakiutl-Nootka) by Boas 

 and Hunt's Kwakiutl Texts (Mem. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., 1902-05) ; the Skittagetan 

 by Swanton's Haida Texts (Bull. 29, B. 

 A. E., 1905) ; the Athapascan by God- 

 dard's Hupa Texts (Publ. Univ. Cal., Am. 

 Archpeol. and Ethnol., i, 1904), and his 

 Morphology of the Hupa Language (1905 ) 

 perhaps belongs here also, likewise Mat- 

 thews' Navaho Legends (1897) and The 

 Night Chant (1902); the Siouan by Riggs' 

 Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnogra- 

 phy (Cont. N. A. Ethnol., ix, 1893), 

 Dorsey's (fegiha Language (Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., VI, 1890), Omaha and Ponka 

 Letters (Bull. 11, B. A. E., 1891), and 

 Osage Traditions (6th Rep. B. A. E., 

 1888) ; the Iroquoian by Mooney's Sacred 

 Formulas of the Cherokee (7th Rep. B. 

 A. E., 1891), Hewitt's Iroquoian Cosmol- 

 ogy (21st Rep. B. A. E., 1903), and Hale's 

 Iroquois Book of Rites ( 1883) — the second 

 records cosmologic myths, the last the 

 great national ritual of the northern Iro- 

 quois. The Algonquian is represented 

 by scattered texts rather than by books, 

 although there are to be mentioned 

 Brinton's Lenape and Their Legends 

 (1885), which contains tlxe text of the 

 Walu7n Olam, and the Cree and Siksika 

 Legends in Petitot's Traditions Indiennes 

 du Canada Nord-ouest (1887), the scat- 

 tered texts in the works of Schoolcraft, 

 Hoffman, etc.; the Eskimo best by the 

 texts in Boas' Eskimo of Baffin Land and 



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Hudson Bay (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XV, 1901), and other writings on the 

 Eskimo, Thalbitzer's Phonetical Study of 

 the Eskimo Language (1904), and Bar- 

 num's Grammatical Fundamentals of the 

 Innuit Language (1901), the last relating 

 to the Tununa dialect of Alaska. The 

 monographs of Miss Alice C. Fletcher on 

 the ceremonies of the Pawnee (22d Rep. 

 B. A. E., 1903), of James ]\Iooney on the 

 Ghost Dance Religion (14th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 1896), the numerous monographs of 

 Dr Franz Boas on the Bellacoola, the 

 Kwakiutl, etc., contain much textual 

 material. The manuscript collection of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology is 

 rich in texts of myths, legends, etc. As 

 a whole, the body of linguistic material, 

 here briefly noticed, is of increasing mag- 

 nitude and value. The literature in the 

 Chinook jargon also furnishes some 

 titles, e. g., the stenographic periodical 

 Kamloops Wawa, bv Father Le Jeune, 

 who is also the author of several pamph- 

 lets. Worthy of mention is Rev. Myron 

 Eells' Hymns in the Chinook Jargon 

 Language (1878-89), which is not merely 

 a translation of English verse. See Bible 

 translations, Dictionaries, Periodicals. 



(a. f. c.) 



Boomerangs. See Rabbit sticks. 



Boothroyd. A body of Ntlakyapamuk 

 Indians of Salishan stock on Fraser r., 

 Brit. Col. The name seems to have been 

 employed to include the towns of Spaim, 

 Kimus, Tzaumuk, Suk, and Nkattsim. 

 Pop. 159 in 1902 (Can. Ind. Aff. for 

 1902, 238) . 



Borego ('sheep'). An ancient settle- 

 ment of the Tepecano, now in ruins, situ- 

 ated on the E. bank of the Rio de 

 Bolafios, approachable from Monte Es- 

 cobedo, in Jalisco, Mexico. There is a 

 native tradition that its people warred 

 against those of Azqueltan after the first 

 coming of the Spaniards. — Hrdlicka in 

 Am. Anthrop., v. 409, 1903. 



Boring. See Drills and Drilling, Shell- 

 work, tStone-work. 



Borrados (Span.: ' painted in stripes or 

 blotches'). A tribe which, according to 

 Orozco y Berra (Geo^., 300, 308, 1864), 

 formerly resided in Tamaulipas, Nuevo 

 Leon, and Coahuila, n. Mexico. There 

 is evidence that the tribe or a portion of 

 it lived at one time in Texas, as the same 

 authority (p. 382) says that the country of 

 the lower Lipan Indians joined on the e. 

 that of the Karankawa and Borrados in 

 the province of Texas. The relationship 

 of this tribe to the Coahuiltecan group is 

 expressly affirmed by Bartolome Garcia. 



Bosomworth, Mary, A noted Creek 

 Indian Moman, also known as Mary 

 Mathews and Mary ]\Jusgrove, who cre- 

 ated much trouble for the Georgia colonial 

 government about 1752, nearly rousing 



