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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THfi 



Curtin (J.) — Cdntinued. 



fcompletely filled, no.s. 10, 12,14,16,17,18,19, 20, 

 21, and 23 are partly lillcd, and uos. 9, 11, and 15 

 are blank. 



The alphal)et adopted by tbo Bureau of Eth- 

 llblogy ia used. 



Jeremiah Cuttiu was born in Milwaukee, 

 Wis., about 1835. Ho had littlo education in 

 childhood, but at the age of twenty or twenty- 

 one prepared himself to enter Phillips Exeter 

 Academy, made extraordinary progress, and 

 soon entered Harvard College, where he was 

 graduated in 1863. By this time he had become 

 noted among his classmates and acquaintances 

 for his wonderful fac^ility as a linguist. On 

 leaving college he had acquired a good knowl- 

 edge of French, Spanish. Portuguese, Italian, 

 Rumanian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, 

 Gothic, German, and Einnish, besides Greeli 

 and Latin. He had also made considerable 

 progress in Hebrew, Persian, aiul Sanskrit, and 

 was beginning to speak Russian. When Ad- 

 miral Lissofsky's fleet visited this country, in 

 1864, Curtin became iicquainted with tlieofheers 

 and accompanied the expedition on its return 

 to Russia. In St. Petersburg he obtained 

 employment as a tran.slator of i>olyglot 

 telegraphic dispatches, but he was presently 

 appointed by Mr. Seward to the office of secre- 

 tary of the United States legation, and ho 

 held this place till 1868. During this period 

 he became familiar with the Polish, Bohe- 

 mian, Lithuanian, Lettish, and Hungarian 

 languages, and made a beginning in Turk- 

 ish. From 1868 till 1877 he traveled in east- 

 em Europe and in Asia, apparently in the 

 service of the Russian government. In 1873, at 

 the celebration at Prague of the 500th anni- 

 versary of the birth of John Huss, he delivered 

 the oration, speaking with great elocjuence in 

 the Bohemian language. During his travels in 

 the Danube country he learned to speak 

 Slovenian, Croatian, Servian, and Bulgarian. 

 He lived for some time in the Caucasus, where 

 he learned Mingrelian, Abkasian, and Arme- 

 nian. At the beginning of the Russo-Turkish 

 war in 1877, he left the Russian dominions, and, 

 after a year in London, retiu-ued to his native 

 country. Since then he has been studying the 

 languages of the American Indians and has 

 made valuable researches under the auspices 

 of Maj. John W. Powell and the Bureau of 

 Ethnology. He is said to be acquainted with 

 more than tifty languages. — Ajtpleton's Cyclop, 

 (if A m. Biog. 



Gushing (Fiauk Haniiltoii). Vocabu- 

 lary of the Navajo lauguage. 



Manuscript in possession of Mr. A. S. Gat- 

 schet, "Washington, D. C. 



Recorded in a folio blank book, on p. 46 of 

 which are twenty-fourseutonces, and, lui p. 73, 

 twenty-fi\'e words anil phrases. This is a copy, 

 made by Mr. Gatschet from tlie original, which 

 is intlje possession of its eomi)iler. 



Gushing (F. H.) — Continued. 

 See Gatschet (A. 8.) 



Frank Hamilton Cuslxiug was borii in North- 

 east, Erie County, Pa., July 22, 1857. He numi- 

 fested in early childhood a love for archeoh)g- 

 ical i)ursuits, and at the age of eight years 

 began to collect fossils and minerals, made .a 

 complete Indian costume, and lived in a bark 

 hut in the woods. He learned that wherever 

 Indian encampments liad been long established 

 the soil an<l vegetation had undergone a change, 

 which assisted him in his search for relics. At 

 the age of tifteen he had discovered the process 

 of making an-ow-heads from flint by pressure 

 with bone. In 1870 his father moved to Medina, 

 N. T., where the son's researches found new 

 ground. In the town of Shelby were ancient 

 remains of fortitications, rich in relies, and they, 

 with ancient burial grounds and camp sites in 

 Madison and Onondaga counties, were carefully 

 searched. In the spring of 1875 he became 

 a student in Cornell University, but later 

 spent most of his time as assi.stant to Dr. 

 Charles Rau in the preparation of the Indian 

 collections of the National Museum for the Cen- 

 tennial exposition at PhiladeliAia, and was 

 curator of the entire collection until the close 

 of the exhibition, when he was appointed 

 curator of the ethnological deijartment of the 

 National Muscnim. During the summer of 1876 

 lie gained his first knowledge of the Pueblo 

 Indians, and in 1879 he joined Maj. J. W. 

 Towcll in his (expedition to New Mexico. The 

 I'xpiMlition spent two months among the Zuiii 

 ludian.j, and Mr. Cushing, at his own request, 

 was left there. Diu-ing the second year of his 

 sojourn he had so tar made himself one of the 

 tribe and gaintnl the esteem of the chiefs that 

 he was formally adopted and initiated into the 

 sacred esoteric society, the "Priesthood of the 

 Bow." In 1882 he visited the east with a party 

 of six Zufiis, who came for the purpose of 

 taking water from the "Ocean of Sunrise," as 

 a religious ceremony, and carrying it to their 

 temple in the Pueblos. Four of the Zunis 

 returned, while Mr. Cushing remained with the 

 other two during the summer in Washington, 

 for the purpose of writing, with their aiil, a 

 paper on Zufii fetiches. In September of the 

 same year he returned to Zuni ; but in the spring 

 of 1884 failing health obliged his return for two 

 years to the east. Again he had with him for 

 some time three of the Zuiiis, to aid him in the 

 preparation of a dictionary and grannuar of 

 their language and in translations of myth and 

 beast stories, songs, and rituals. In 1886 Mr. 

 Cushing organized the Hemenway Archfeolog- 

 ical Expedition, and as its director discovered 

 and excavated extensive buried cities in Ari- 

 zona and New Mexico ; but in 1888 he was again 

 jirostratcd by illness. He is now writing con- 

 tiiliutions for the Bureau of Ethnology on the 

 iclation of ]uiuiitive drama to creation lore and 

 other ZuIii works. 



