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WICHITAN. 



Wichita I. A list of signs from Rev. A. J. HoLT, missionary, obtained from KiN 

 Che-ess (Sjiectacles), IMedicine-nian of the Wicliitas, at the Wichita Agency, Indian 

 Territory, in 1879. 



Wichitn II. A list of signs from Tsodiako (Shaved Head Boy), a "Wichita chief, 

 from Indian Territory, who visited Washington, D. C, in June, 1880. 



Zuni I. Some preliminary notes lately received from Rev. Taylor F. Ealy, mis- 

 sionary among the Zufii, upon the signs of that body of Indians. 



Grateful acknowledgment must be made to Prof. E. A. Fay, of the National Deaf 

 Mute College, through whose special attention a large number of the natural signs of 

 deaf-mutes, remembered by them as having been invented and used before instruction 

 in conventional signs, iudeed before attending any school, was obtained, which are 

 printed in this paper. The gentlemen who nuxde the contributions in their own MS., 

 and without prom])tiug, are as follows: Messrs. M. Ballard, E. M. Zeigler, J.Cross, 



Philip J. Hasenstab, Larson. Their names will follow the several descriptions. 



Mr. Ballard is now the teacher in the primary school of the college, and the other 

 gentlemen were students during the last session. 



Special thaidvs are also rendered to Prof. James D. Butler, of Madison, Wis., for 

 contribution of Italian gesture-signs, noted l)y him in 1813, and for many useful sug- 

 gestions. 



A snuill collection of Australian signs has been extracted from The Aborigines of 

 Victoria, by E. Brot^gh S:mytii, vol. ii, pp. 4-5, 308-9. London, 1878. Upon these 

 the author uuikes the following curious remarks: " It is believed that they have sev- 

 eral signs, known only to themselves, or to those among the whites who have had 

 intercourse with them for lengthened periods, which convey information readily and 

 accurately. Indeed, because of their use of signs, it is the lirm belief of many (some 

 uneducated and some educated) that the natives of Australia are acquainted with the 

 secrets of Freemasonry." 



