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including Southern Dakotas, Utes, Shoshoni, Arapahos, Crows, Pani, and 

 Apaches. This is contained in "The City of the Saints," New York, 18G2. 



6. A manuscsipt list in the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 contributed by Brevet Col. James S. Bbisbin, Major Second Cavalry, United 

 States Army, probably prepared in 1878-79, and chiefly taken from the 

 Crows, Shoshoni, and Sioux. 



7. A list prepared in July, 1879, by Mr. Frank H. Gushing, of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, from continued interviews with Titchkem;itski, an 

 intelligent Cheyenne, now employed at that Institution, whose gestures were 

 analyzed, their description as made dictated to a phonographer, and the 

 more generic signs also photographed as made before the camera. The 

 name of the Indian in reference to this list is used instead of that of the 

 collector, as Mr. Cushing has made other contributions, tQ be separately 

 noted with his name for distinctiveness. 



8. A valuable and illustrated contribution from Dr. Washington Mat- 

 thews, Assistant Surgeon United States Army, author of " Ethnography 

 and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians," &c, lately prepared from his notes 

 and recollections of signs observed during his long service among the In- 

 dians of the Upper Missouri and the plains. 



9. A report of Dr. W. J. Hoffman, from observations among the Te- 

 ton Dakotas while Acting Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, and sta- 

 tioned at Grand River Agency, Dakota, during 1872-73. 



10. A special contribution from Lieut." H. R. Lemly, Third United 

 States Artillery, compiled from notes and observations taken by him in 

 1877 among the Northern Arapahos. 



11. Some preliminary notes lately received from Rev. Taylor F. Ealy, 

 missionary among the Zufii, upon the signs of that bod}' of Indians. 



12. Similar notes from Rev. A. J. Holt, Denison, Tex., respecting the 

 Comanche signs. 



13. Similar notes from Very Rev. Edward Jacker, Pointe St. Ignace, 

 Mich., respecting the Ojibwa. 



14. A special list from Rev. J Owen Dorsey, missionary at Omaha 

 Agency, Nebraska, from observations lately made among the Ponkas and 

 Omahas. 



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