BIBLIOGRAPHY OP THE 



Boas (F.) — Continued. 



ical notes. The contents may lie described as 

 follows : 



1. Kwaklutl tiibe: 



Thirteen old songs belonging to the 



Tsetsaeka ceremonial. 

 Thirty-one songs of Tsetsaeka dances. 

 Fi fteen songs belonging to Tsetsaeka masks. 

 Thi'e.e Potlatsh songs. 

 Two songs froia traditions. 

 Five shaman's songs. 

 Three Laola^a songs. 

 Two j)rayers to the sun. 

 Three love songs. 

 Two morning songs. 

 Two children's songs. 



2. Nimkish tribe: 



Five songs of Tsetsaeka dances. 

 3. Koskinio tribe: 

 One song of Tsetsaeka dance. 

 • 4. Newette tribe : 



Four old songs belonging to the Tsetsaeka 



ceremonial. 

 Eleven songs of Tsetsaeka dances. 

 Nine songs of Nonleow dances. 

 Tliree war songs. 

 5. Traditions: 

 (^'a'nigilak. 

 Mink and the wolves. 

 Mink and the sun. 

 Mink's burial. 

 Mink and otter. 

 Kuekuaxa'oe. 

 Lela^a. 

 Oui'axtalase. 

 Nomasenxelis. 

 Se'uiae. 

 The deer and his son. 



Vocabulary of the Nootka dialect. (*) 



Manuscript, 42 pages, folio, in j)Ossession 

 of its author, who informs mo it consists of 

 about 1,400 words. 



Franz Boas was born in Minden, Westphalia, 

 Germany, July 9, 18.58. From 1877 to 1882 he 

 attended the universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, 

 andKiel. The year 1882 he spent in Berlin, pre- 

 paring for an Arctic voyage, and sailed June, 

 1883, to Cumberland Sound, Baffin Land, travel- 

 ing in that region until September, 1884, return- 

 ing via St. Johns, Newfoundland, to New York. 

 The winter of 1881-'85 he spent in Washing- 

 ton, i)reparing the results of his .journey for 

 publication and in studying in the National 

 Museum. From 1885 to 1880 Dr. Boas was an 

 assistant in the Royal Ethnographical Museum 

 of Berlin and docent of geography at the ITni- 

 versity of Berlin. In the winter of 1885-'86 he 

 journeyed to British Columbia, under the 

 auspices of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, for the purpose of 

 studying the Indians. During 1886-'88 Dr. 

 Boas was assistant editor of Science, in New 

 York, and from 1888 to 1892 docent of anthro- 

 pology at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 

 During these years he made repeated journeys 

 to the Pacific coast, with the object of con- 



Boas (F.) — Continued. 



tinning his researches among the Indians. In 

 1881 Kiel gave him the degree of Ph. D. 



Dr. Boas's principal writings are: Baffin 

 .Land, Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1885; The Central 

 Eskimo (in thcGth Annual Re port of theBureau 

 of Ethnology); Reports to the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science on the 

 Inilians of British Columbia, 1888-1892; Volks- 

 sagen aus Britisch Columbien, Verli. der Ges. 

 fttr Anthropologie, Ethnoiogie und Urge- 

 schichtoin Berlin, 1891. 



Boston AtheniBum : These words following a title 

 or within parentheses after a note indicate tliat 

 a copy of the work referred to has been seen by 

 the compiler in the library of that institution, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Boston Public: The.se words following a title or 

 within parentheses after a note indicate that a 

 copy of the work referred to has been seen by 

 the comi>iler in that librarv, Bo.ston, Mass. 



Boulet {Her. Jean-Baptiste), editor. See 



Youth's, 

 Bourgoing (Jean Frangois). Eelation 



(Vtin voyage recent des Espagnols sur 



les cotes nord-ouest de I'Amerique sep- 



tenti'ionale, 1792. 



In Archives Litteraires de I'Europe, vol.2, 



pp. 54-89, Paris, 1804, 8°. (British Museum.) 

 Numerals 1-10 of the Eskelen, Nutka, and 



Rumsien (from Humboldt), pp. 78, 79, 87. 



Brabant (A'ec. A. J.) [Linguistic mate- 

 rial in and relating to the Ne.skwiat or 

 Nutka language.] 



Manus(!ript in possession of its atithor, who 

 writes me from the Nesqiiat mission, British 

 Columbia, under date of December 14, 1893, as 

 follows : 



" I had spentabout three months of the sum- 

 mer of 1874 with Right Rev. Bishop Seghers 

 amoug the natives of this coast, when the pre- 

 late concluded to establish a mission at Hes- 

 quiat, the entrance to Nootka Sound, and com- 

 missioned me to take charge of it in May, 1875. 

 You inquire about my work on the language. I 

 give you the information you ask for withmuch 

 pleasure. 



"As I had no books that I could consult, and 

 in fact I have up to this day seen nothing about 

 the language worth consulting, I selected two 

 Indians who knew a few words of Chinook, and 

 with the help of the Jargon began to collect a 

 number of familiar words and expressions. 

 After a while I noticed that these people when 

 speaking observed certain rules and forms, and 

 so I set to work and marked down anything in 

 that line I could notice. Of course as time and 

 my knowledge of the language advanced the 

 task was rendered much more easy ; and finally 

 I put my notes a little in shape, not with tlio 

 idea of having anything published, but for my 

 own satisfaction and for the use of any of our 

 l)riests who, being stationed among these 



