SALISHAN LANGUAGES. 



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Hoffman {Dr. Walter James). Selisli 

 myths. By W. J. Hoffman, M. D. 



In Esses lust. Bull., vol. 1.5, pp. 23-40, Salem, 

 1884, 8°. (Geological Survey.) 



A myth in the Selish language, with inter- 

 linear English translation, pp. 24-25. — Notes on 

 some of the Selish words, p. 40. 



Bird names of the Selish, Pah Uta, 



and Shoshoni Indians. By W. J. Hoff- 

 man, M.D. 



In the Auk, a quarterly journal of ornithol- 

 ogy, vol. 2, pp. 7-10, Boston, 1885, 8^. (Geological 

 Survey.) 



A list of 49 hird names; Selish equivalents 

 of 34 are given. 



Issued separately, with half-title as follows: 



(From the Ank, vol. II, No. 1, Janu- 

 ary, 1885). I Bird names of the Selish, 

 Pah Uta and | Shoshoni Indians. | By 

 W. J. Hoffman, M. D. 



[Boston: 1885.] 



Half-title on cover, no inside title; text pp. 

 7-10, 8°. 



Linguistic contents as under title next above. 



Co2)ies seen : Eanies, Pilling. 



Vocabulary of the Selish Language. 



By W. J. Hoffman, M.D., Washington, 

 D. C. (Read before the American Phil- 

 osophical Society, March 19, 1886.) 



In American Philosoph. Soc. Proc. vol. 23, 

 pp. 361-371, Philadelphia, 1886, 8°. (Geological 

 Survey.) 



Vocabulary (300 words), pp. 361-369.— Phrases 

 (22), p. 369.— Numerals 1-1000, pp. 369-370.— 

 Myth with interlinear English translation, p. 

 370— List of tribes known to be Selish, p. 371. 

 Walter J. Hofl'mau was born in Weidas- 

 ille, Pa., May 30, 1840; studied medicine with 

 ' his father (the late Dr. Wm. F. Hoffman, of 

 Reading, Pa.), .and graduated from Jefferson 

 j Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., March 10, 

 j 1866. Practiced his profession in Reading, Pa., 

 (' until the summer of 1870, when, at the outbreak 

 I of the Franco-Prussian war, he received a com- 

 mission of surgeon in the Prussian army and 

 ' was assigned to the Seventh Army Corps, 

 , located near Metz. For "distinguished services 

 rendered" he was decorated hy the Emperor 

 ' "William I, and after his return to America he 

 was a])pointed, in 1871, .acting assistant sur- 

 geon, U. S. A., and naturalist to the expedition 

 for the exploration of Nevada and Arizona, 

 Lieutenant (now Ma^jor) Wheeler, U. S. Engineer 

 Corps, commanding. Ur. Hoffman was ordered, 

 in August, 1872, to the military post at Grand 

 River Agency (now North) Dakota, where he 

 served as post surgeon and prosecuted 

 researches in the language and mythology of 

 the Dakota Indians. In the spring of 1873, Dr. 

 Hoffman was detailed to accompany the Seventh 

 IT. S. Cavalry. General Custer commanding, and 

 was later transferred to the Twenty-second 

 Infantry, the regiment of wh^ct^ Geperal Stan- 

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Hoffman (W. J.) — Continued. 



ley was then colonel. Returning to Reading, 

 Pa., Dr. Hoffman resumed the i)ractice of med- 

 icine in November, 1873, and continued until 

 the autumn of 1877, when he was placed hy 

 Professor Hayden, then director of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, in charge of the ethnological 

 and mineralogical material. In this capacity 

 he continued until the organization of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology in 1879, when he was 

 appointed assistant ethnologist, which office he 

 fills at this date. 



Dr. Hoffman has made special investigation 

 with the organization (existing among all 

 tribes of Indians, in some form or other) usually 

 denominated the Grand Medicine Society, and 

 for this purpose, as well as for the collection of 

 antliropomorphic and other ethnologic data, 

 has visited most of the aboriginal tribes of the 

 United States and the northwest coast of 

 America. In 1881 he visited the Mandans, 

 Hidatsa, and Arikara, to study the sign lan- 

 guage, pictographs, and secret society of the 

 Arikara. In 1882 he made a trij) to the Cali- 

 fornia and Nevada tribes and all known local- 

 ities abounding in pictographs, gathered vocab- 

 ularies of Smiiwitsli (Santa Barbara), Kawi'ah 

 (at Tulle River), etc. In 1883 he visited Ottawa, 

 near Mackinaw, Mich., and Mdewakantawan, 

 at Mendota, Minn., studying pictographs and 

 linguistics, etc. In 1884 he studied the tribes 

 of Vancouver's Island, B. C, Washington, 

 Oregon, California, and Nevada, especially their 

 pictography, sign language, and tattooing. In 

 1886 he visited petroglyphs in West Virginia, 

 Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and 

 Pennsylvania. In 1887-1890 he made visits to 

 the Ojibwa of Minnesota, to study their Grand 

 Medicine ritual and initiation. In 1890-'01 he 

 visited the Menomiui of Wisconsin and Ojibwa 

 of Minnesota, to study their ritual and medi- 

 cine society. 



HovT-se (Joseph). Vocabularies of cer- 

 tain North American languages. By 

 T. (J.?) Howse, Esq. 



In Philological Soc. [of Loudon] Proc. vol.4, 

 pp. 191-206, London, 1850, 8^. (Congress.) 



Vocabulary of the Flathead, Okauagen, and 

 Atnaor Shoushwhap, pp. 109-206. 



Hymn-book : 



Netlakapamuk 

 Hymns : 



Kalispel 



Klallam 



Netlakapamuk 



Netlakapamuk 



Niskwalli 



Niskwalli 



Okinagan 



Skwaksin 



Snohomish 



Twana 



See Le Jeune (J. M. R.) 



See Giorda (J. B.) 

 Eells (M.) 

 Good (J.B.) 

 Le Jeune (J. M. R.) 

 Bulmer (T. S.) 

 Eells (M.) 

 Tate (C. M.) 

 Eells (M.) 

 Boulet (J. B.) 

 Eells (M.) 



Hymns in the Thompson tongue. See 

 Le Jeune (J. M. R.) 



