INTRODUCTION. XXI 
He heard of about twenty-five of the Tunika tribe still living 
in their old homes on the Marksville Prairie, Aveyelles Parish, 
Louisiana. An excellent vocabulary was obtained of their 
language at Lecompte, Louisiana, and a careful comparison of 
this with other Indian languages shows that the Tunika is re- 
lated to none, but represents a distinct linguistic family. He 
was unable to collect any information in regard to the Karan- 
kawa tribe, concerning which little is known except that they 
lived upon the Texan coast near Lavaca Bay. 
Leaving Laredo County, Texas, he visited Camargo, in 
Tamaulipas, Mexico, finding near San Miguel the remnants 
of the Comecrudo tribe, or, as they are called by the whites, 
Carrizos. Only the older men and women still remember their 
language. The full-blood Comecrudos seen were tall and thin, 
some of them with fairer complexions than the Mexicans. Sub- 
sequently the Cotoname language, formerly spoken in the same 
district, was studied and found to be a distinctly related dialect 
of Comecrudo. Both of them belong to the Coahuiltecan 
family. From the Comecrudo Mr. Gatschet obtained the names 
of a number of extinct tribes which formerly lived in their 
vicinity, but of which no representatiyes are left. These are 
the Casas Chiquitas, Tejones (or ‘‘Raccoons”), Pintos or Paka- 
was, Miakkan, and Cartujanos. He next visited the Tlaskaltec 
Indians, who live in the city of Saltillo. Of these Indians about 
two hundred still speak their own language, which is almost 
identical with the Aztec, although largely mixed with Spanish. 
WORK OF MR, JEREMIAH CURTIN. 
Mr. Jeremiah Curtin was engaged from the middle of March 
to June | in completing investigations begun the previous year 
into the history, myths, and language of the Iroquois Indians 
at Versailles, Cattaraugus County, New York. The material 
obtained by him is of great interest and value. 
WORK OF DR. W. J. HOFFMAN. 
Dr. W. J. Hoffman proceeded early in August to Paint 
Rock, North Carolina, to secure sketches of pictographs upon 
the canyon walls of the French Broad River near that place. 
