ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 693 
Drs. Tolmie and Dawson, of Canada. With some obvious defects, due 
to Gallatin’s imperfect materials, it has the cardinal merit of including 
all those groups of words which are specially serviceable in tracing the 
affiliation of languages, viz., the primary terms of kinship, the names of 
the parts of the body, and of the most common natural objects, the per- 
sonal pronouns, and the numerals. In practice “American ethnologists 
have found Gallatin’s vocabulary of very great scientific usefulness. 
They have been able, mainly by its aid, to accomplish already, in great 
part, the difficult work of classifying the numerous tribes and languages 
of North America and bringing the ethnology and archeology of that 
region out of utter chaos into some hopeful order. The following 
vocabularies, which have been gathered with much care, will, it may be 
hoped—taken in connection with the grammatical outlines given in this 
and the preceding reports—serve materially to further that important 
work as well as to elucidate the division into linguistic stocks and 
dialects presented in the map accompanying this report.—H. H. ] 
The dialects of the Athapascan (or Tinneh) languages are not con- 
tained in the list. It would have been desirable to add vocabularies of 
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the Kaigani dialect of the Haida, of the Nasqa dialect of the Tsimshian, 
and of the Lower Kutonaqa, in order to give a complete review of all the 
distinct dialects of this group of languages. There are slight differences 
between the dialects of various tribes in each group which, however, 
cannot be included in this brief review, as they are merely provincialisms 
which do not hinder communication between the tribes. The dialects of 
the various stocks, particularly those of the Salishan stock, are arranged 
in groups according to their affiliations. 
Man Woman 
Stock Dialect 
Independent aaa Independent etn 
Tlingit 1 Stikeen ka, tlingit _— ca’ wat — 
Haida 2 Biidseate i ga, é’tlinga — dj’a — 
Tsimshian 3 Tsimshian id/ot — hana/aq = 
Kwakiutl- 4 Heéiltsuk: we/sEm brgu— g’anr’m kyay-,-ak'srEm 
| “Nootka } 5 Kwakiutl _ | begua/num —_— tsEta’q kyay-,-k'as 
6 Nootka. Ts'éciath| ten/kup ‘| - sain © |tivtma | —aksap 
Salish 7 Bilqula tl’umsta/ — Hnac == 
ivi/lkH 
8 Catloltq k-ai/miq _ — 
9 Pentlate cuvale — — 
10 Siciatl sk‘a/Imiq _ — 
11 Snanaimuq sué/k'a —_ _— 
12 Sk'qémic sué‘k-a _— — 
13 Lkungren sué/k'a — <= 
14 Ntlakyapamuq | sk‘a/yuq — eEmi‘tlate _— 
15 StlatlumH sk'a/yuq — cia/k'tcE _ 
16 SrQquapmuQq sk'/lemuq _— no’qonuq 
17 Okana’/k’én sk‘EltEm6/Q - tkitlmmé/luq 
coll., cmamEé/m _ 
Katonaqa 18 Columbia Lakes | ti’tk-at — pa'tlki = 
