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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Gibbs (G. ) — Continued. 



derivation of the words, chiefly from ignoring 

 the Chehalis element of the Jargon, and the 

 number of « ords given by liim amounted only 

 to about two hundred and fifty. 



"A copy of Mr. Lionnefs vocabulary having 

 b'len sent to me with a request to make such 

 corrections as it might require, I concluded not 

 merely to collate the words contained in this 

 and other printed and manuscript vocabularies, 

 but to ascertain, so far as possible, the lan- 

 guages which had contributed to it, with the 

 original Indian words. This had become the 

 more important, as its extended use by differ- 

 ent tribes had led to ethnological errors in the 

 classing together of essentially di.stinct fami- 

 lies." — Preface. 



Issued also with title-page as follows : 



A 1 dictionary | of the | Chinook 



Jargon, | or, | trade language of 

 Oregon. | By George Gibbs. | 



New York : | Craraoisy press. | 1863. 



Half-title (Shea's Library of American Lin- 

 guistics. XII.) verso blank 1 1. title verso blank 

 1 1. preface pp. v-xi, bibliography of the Chinook 

 Jargon pp. xiii-xiv, half-title of part I verso 

 note 1 1. Chinook-English dictionary pp. 1-29, 

 half-title of part II verso Idank 1 1. English- 

 Chinook dictionary pp. 3:i-4.i, the Lord's prayer 

 in Jargon p. [-1:4], 8°. 



Copies seen: Astor, Boston Athena>um, Con- 

 gre.ss, Dunbar, Eames, Harvard, Lenox, Smith- 

 .sonian, Trumbull, Well eslej". 



Some copies (twenty-flve, I believe) were 

 issued in large quarto form with no change of 

 title-page. (Pilling. Smithsonian.) 



See Hale (H.) 



Vocabulary of the Hailt'-znkh. (Bel- 



bella of Millbank Sound, British 

 Columbia.) Obtained from an Indian 

 known as " Capt. Stewart," at Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island, in April, 1859, by 

 George Gibbs. 



In Dall ( W. H.), Tribes of the extreme north- 

 west; in Powell (J. W.), Contributions to 

 North American Ethnology, vol. 1, pp. 144-1!5,'?, 

 Washington, 1877,4°. 



Contains about 150 words. 



Vocabulary of the Kwa'-kiutl. (A 



dialect of the Ha-ilt'zukh.) Obtained 

 from two women of tlie tribe, at Nau- 

 aimo, British Columbiii, in September, 

 1857, by George Gibbs. 



In Dall (W. H.). Tribes of the extreme north- 

 west; in Powell (J.W.), Contributions to North 

 American Ethnology, vol. 1, pp. 144-153, Wash- 

 ington, 1877, 4°. 



Contains about 160 words. 



Account of Indian tribes upon the 



northwest coast of North America. 



Manuscript, 8 leaves, folio, written on one 

 side only; in the library of the Bureau of Eth- 

 nology, Washington, D. C. 



.Gribbs (G. ) — Continued. 



General account of the Indians of the above 

 named region, including the Nutka, Tlao- 

 quatch, and Heiltzuk,and a list of vocabularies 

 which have been printed in those languages. 



— Numerals of the Makah. 

 Manuscript, 1 page, folio; in the library of 



the Bureau of Ethnology. 



Include.^ the numerals 1-20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 

 70, 80, 90, 100. 



— Vocal)ulary of the Makah language. 

 Manuscript, 6 leaves, folio, written on one 



side only ; in the library of the Bureau of Eth- 

 nologj', Washington, D. C. Collected in 1858. 



Kecorded on one of the forms containing 180 

 words issued by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Equivalents of nearly all the words are given. 



— Vocabularies. Washington Terri- 

 tory. 



Manuscript, 141 leaves, most of which are 

 written on both sides, and some of which are 

 blank, 12°; in the library of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology. Recorded in a blank book. 



Most of the vocabularies have been copied 

 by their author on separate forms. Among- them 

 is one of the Haeltzuk or Belbella, 7 pages. 



— See Knipe (C.) 



George Gibbs, the son of Col. George Gibbs, 

 was born on the 17th of July, 1815, at Sunswick, 

 Long Island, near the village of Halletts Cove, 

 now known as Astoria. At seventeen he was 

 taken to Europe, where he remained two years. 

 On his return from Europe he commenced the 

 reading of law, and in 1838 took his degree of 

 bachelor of law at Harvard University. In 1848 

 Mr. Gibbs went overland from St. Louis to 

 Oregon and established himself at Columbia. 

 In 1854 he received the appointment of collector 

 of the port of Astoria, which he held during 

 Mr. Fillmore's administration. Later he re- 

 moved from Oregon to Washington Territory, 

 and settled upon a ranch a few miles from Fort 

 Steilacooni. Here he had his headquarters for 

 several years, devoting himself to the study of 

 the Indian languages and to the collection of 

 vocabularies and traditions of the northwest- 

 ern tribes. During a great part of the time 

 he was attached to the United States Govern- 

 ment Commission in laying the boundary, 

 as the geologist or botanist of the expedition. 

 He was also attached as geologist to the survey 

 of a railroad route to the Pacific, under Major 

 Stevens. In 1857 he was appointed to the 

 northwest boundary survey under Mr. Archi- 

 bald Campbell, as commissioner. In 1860 Mr. 

 Gibbs returned to New York, and in 1861 was 

 ondutj" in Washington in guarding the Capitol. 

 Later he resided in Washington, being mainly 

 employed in the Hudson Bay Claims Commis- 

 sion, to which he was secretary. He was also 

 engaged in the arrangement of a large mass of 

 manuscript bearing upon the ethnology and 

 philology ofthe American Indians. His services 

 were availed of by the .Smithsonian Institution 

 to superintend its labors in this field, and to liia 



