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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Dorsey (J. O.) — Continued. 



Manuscript, 7 pp. 4°, in the library of tlin 

 Bureau of Etliiiolojiy. Collected at the Siletz 

 Indian Eeservalimi, Griffon, Sept., 1884, with 

 the assistance of Smith liivcr Jolm. Recorded 

 in a copy of Powell's lutroducliou to the Study 

 of Indian Lanijua^cs, second edition, pp. 77-78, 

 82, 122-123, 182, 184, tlu! remaining pages of the 

 work being left blank. 



Of the schedules given in the work uos. 1, 2, 

 and 18 are partly tilled. The total entries amount 

 to 57. 



[A vocabtilary of words and phrases 



in tlie dialect of the Tal'-t'dc-t'&n tft'- 

 de, or Galiee Creek Indians Avho 

 formerly lived in Josephine County, 

 Oregon, 30 miles north of Kerby.] 



Manuscript, 10 i)p. 4°, in the library of tlie 

 Bureau of Ethnok)gy. Collected at the Siletz 

 Indian Agency, Oregon, October, 1884, with the 

 a.ssistanco of Tael'-tun or Galiee Creek Jim 

 and Peter Muggins. Recorded in a copy of 

 Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian 

 Languages, second edition, pp. 77-228 and 2 extra 

 leaves at the end, many of the pages being left 

 blank. 



Of the schedules given in the work none is 

 completely filled, and nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 18, 24, 

 and 30 are but partly filled. The 2 leaves at the 

 end contain the parts of the body in great 

 detail, a few possessive pronouns, and the con- 

 jugations in brief of the verbs to desire and to 

 know. The entries as a whole number 254. 



[WordS; sentences, and grammatical 



material in the Tu-tu'tftn-ne', or Tu'-tu 

 language (dialect of several villages.)] 



Manuscript, 155 pp. 4°, in the library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. Collected at the Siletz 

 Indian Reserv.ation, Oregon, August-October, 

 1884, with tlio assistance of twelve members of 

 the Tu'tu ti'ibe. Recorded in a copy of Powell's 

 Introduction to the Study of Iiulian Languages, 

 second edition, pp. 76-86, 88-89, 95-103, 106, 108- 

 129, 131-147, 149-155, 162-173, 180-185, 188-199, 

 206-213, 220, 228, and 46 unnumbered pages at 

 the end, with many intercalated iiage.s passim. 



Of the schedules given in the work nos. 1, 2, 3, 

 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 25, and 30 are filled ; 

 nos. 4, 5, 0, 7, 9, 10, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 27, and 28 are 

 partly filled, and nos. 11,20, and 29 are blank. 

 The total entries number 3,902, besides a text 

 with interlinear and free translation. 



Vocabulary of the Upper Coquille 



or Mi-ci-qwilt-me tftn-ng. 



Manuscript, 38 pp. 4°, in the library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. Collected at the Siletz 

 Indian Agency, Oregon, August-October, 1884, 

 with the assistance of Coquille Thompson and 

 Coquille Solomon. Recorded in a copy of 

 Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian 

 Languages, second edition, pp. 77, 81,84, 88-89, 

 96^98, 100-103, 100-111, 128-129, 132-136, 183-184, 

 192-198, 228, and 4 unnumbered leaves at the end. 



Dor.sey (.1. O.) — Continued. 



Of the schedules given in the work nos. 1, 2, 

 18, 24, and 30 are filled, and nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 

 13, 14, 16, 17,22, and 25 are partly filled; tlie 

 remaining numbers are Ijlank. There is a total 

 of 745 entries. 



A vocalntlary of the Yu'-ki-tc6 or 



Yu'-ki-tce' tiln-ue dialect spoken by 

 the Indians formerly living on I^uclire 

 Creek, Oregon. 



Manuscript, 11. 4°, written on one side only, 

 in the library of the Bureau of Ethnology. C(d- 

 lected at the Siletz Indian Agency, Oregon, 

 September, 1884, with the assistance of James 

 "Warner, sr., who could speak a little English. 



Tlie entries niunljcr 236, and are arranginl in 

 the order of the schedules given in Powell's In- 

 troduction to the Study of Indian Languages, 

 second edition. 



James Owen Dorsey was born in Baltimore, 

 Md., in 1848. He attended the Central High 

 School (now the City College) in 1862 and 1863, 

 taking the classical course. Illness caused him 

 to abandon his studies when a member of tho 

 second year class. In a counting room from 1864 

 to 1866. Taught from September, 1860, to Juno, 

 1807. Entered the preparatory department of 

 the Theological Seminary of Virginia in Sep- 

 tember, 1867, and the junior class of tlie semi- 

 nary in September, 1869. Was ordained a deacon 

 of the Protestant Episcopal Churcli in tlio 

 United States by the bishop of Virginia, Easter 

 day, 1871. Entered upon his work among tlie 

 Ponca Indians, in Dakota Territory, in May of 

 that year. Had an attack of scarlet fever in 

 April, 1872, and one of typho-malarial fever in 

 July, 1873. Owing to this illness he was 

 obliged to give up the mission work in August, 

 1873, soon alter he had learned to talk to the 

 Indians without an interpreter. He returned to 

 Maryland and eug.aged in parish work till July, 

 1878, when, under the direction of Maj. J. W. 

 Powell, he went to the Omaha reservation in 

 Nebraska in order to increa.se his stock of lin- 

 guistic material. On the organization of tho 

 Bureau of Ethnology, in 1879, ho was tr;xns- 

 ferred thereto, an<l from that time he has been 

 engaged continuously in linguistic and socio- 

 logic work for tho Bureau. He remained amimg 

 the Omaha till April, 1880. when he returned to 

 Washington. Since then ho has made .several 

 trills to Indian reservations for scientific pur- 

 poses, not only to tho.se occupied by tribes of 

 the Siouan family, but also to the Siletz reser. 

 vation, in Oregon. At the last place, which he 

 visited in 1884, he obtained vocabularies, gram- 

 matic notes, etc., of languages spoken by In- 

 dians of the Athapascan, Kusan, Takiluian, 

 and Yakonan stocks. The reports of his otiice 

 and field work will be found in the annual 

 reports of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



Drake (Samuel Gardiner). The | Abo- 

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 comprising | biographical sketches of 



