ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 655 
suture synostosed. The frontal bone is long and narrow. Superciliary 
ridges large. Double temporal lines well developed. Depression all 
around the cranium behind the coronal suture. Exostosis at obelion. 
Fria. 36.—Bull Harbour, No. 90. 
_ Protuberantia occipitalis very large. Squama occipitalis narrow, high. 
_ Foramen magnum small; condyles small; mastoid process large. Inci- 
 sura mastoidea of right side small. Nose very high and narrow; lower 
edge sharp. Orbits. large. 
It seems that the lateral compression of the cranium affects also the 
face, as the indices of the upper face and of the nose show. 
LINGUISTICS. 
KWAKIUTL. 
In the following notes observations on the Héiltsuk: and Kwakiutl dialects of 
this stock are contained. The former were obtained in the years 1888 and 1889 
from a number of men who visited Victoria. The latter are derived from collections 
made at Hope Island and Alert Bay, 1886; Victoria, 1888; and Alert Bay, 1889. 
I give only such parts somewhat fuller in which my conclusions differ from those of 
the Rey. Alfred J. Hall, whose notes on the grammar of the Kwakiutl language were 
published in the ‘ Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada,’ 1888, sec. ii. K. in 
the following chapter means Kwakiutl dialect ; H. means He'iltsuk: dialect. 
PHONETICS. 
Vowels : a, “i 26, He 1, Ol U. 
Consonants: b,p; w; m; gy, KH; g, k; g°, k*; q, Q; y, H; d,t, n; s, ts; 
(Chtc) sels ral ths) he 
There is a strong tendency to elimination of vowels in the Héiltsuk- dialect. 
