18 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF INDIAN LANGUAGES. 
Sometimes an Indian in jest will deceive by giving foolish or vulgar 
words; for this and other reasons everything collected should be carefully 
verified. 
5 1.—PERSONS. 
Most of the words in this list can easily be obtained, but care should 
be taken to obtain the word for man; not Indian or white man; and in 
most of the set to get the words called for, and not terms of relationship. 
§2.—PARTS OF THE BODY. 
In many Indian languages there is no separate word for eye, hand, 
arm, or other parts and organs of the body, but the word is found with an 
incorporated or attached pronoun signifying my hand, my eye; your hand, 
your eye; his hand, his eye, &c., as the case may be. If the Indian, in 
naming these parts, refers to his own body, he says my ; if he refers to the 
body of the person to whom he is speaking, he says your, &c. If an Indian 
should find a detached foot thrown from the amputating-table of an army 
field hospital, he would say something like this: “I have found somebody 
his foot.” The pronominal particle should be written with the part imply- 
ing the name, the whole forming but one word. It is usually very easy, 
by inspection, to determine what pronoun is used. This linguistic charac- 
teristic is widely spread though not universal. 
It is a general custom among the Indians to pierce the ears for orna- 
ments; many tribes also pierce the septum of the nose. 
The names of internal organs or parts can better be determined after 
having learned the names of parts of animals as subsequently called for in 
Schedule 12. 
There may be a general term for blood-vessel, and specific terms for 
the more noticeable ones. 
§ 3—DRESS AND ORNAMENTS. 
Primitively the Indians used the skins of animals, and, to a limited 
extent, crude textile fabrics for their clothing. The dress of the man con- 
sisted— 
First, of a head-covering or cap. This was often the skin taken from 
the head of some animal, as the wolf, bear, deer, fox, &c., and stretched 
