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among the Omaha and a part of the Sioux Indians, Miss AHce Fletcher has 

 sketched in this manner the white buffalo festival of the Hunkpapa, the elk mys- 

 tery of the Oglala, the cult of the Four Winds among the Isangti, the ghost 

 lodge of the Oglala and the pipe-dance of the Omaha. An article chiefly due to 

 historic research is " on the social and political position of woman among the 

 Huron-Iroquois tribes," by Mr. Lucian Carr, Assistant Curator of the Museum. 



A. S. G. 



Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia: 

 By Dr. W. F. Tolmie and G. M. Dawson. 8vo. , pp. 127. 



As the first result of activity shown by the newly organized ethnologic sec- 

 tion of the geological survey of Canada, Alfred R. C. Selwyn, Director, an in- 

 structive publication has just been issued at Montreal under the title : " Com- 

 parative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia," with a map 

 illustrating distribution; by Dr. W. F. Tolmie and George M. Dawson, pp. 127, 

 8mo. Dr. Tolmie has been a resident in the northwest almost continuously since 

 1833; for many years he was in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company and 

 through it was brought in contact with a large number of Indian tribes. Dr. G. 

 M. Dawson is well known as a geologist, first by his report on the Queen Char- 

 lotte Islands (1878-9). The vocabularies embodied in the pamphlet before us 

 number about thirty and were for the larger part collected by the two scientists in 

 Victoria during the winter of 1875-6; with the exception of theTinn^ and Haida 

 dialects and the Kiitenay, they embrace about 210 words each (the list of G. 

 Gibbs), and are worded in an alphabet, of which the elements are explained on 

 page 10. Some of the northwestern dialects, especially those of the Tinne stock 

 are exceedingly difficult to render graphically unless the linguist has become pre- 

 viously familiar with them. The vocabularies contained in the volume are the 

 following, the group to which they belong being premised to each group : 



Thlinkit : Skut-Kwan. 



TsiMSiAN : Kitunto, Kithatla. 



Haida : Kaigani, Masset, Skidegate, Kumshiwa. 



Kwakiul: Haishilla, Flailtzuk, Kwiha, Likwiltoh, Kowmook (or Tlathool). 



Kawitchin : Snaraimu, Songis, Kwantlin, 



A'ht: Kayukw-a'ht. 



Selish : Sinahomish, Staktamish, Lilloet, Kalispelm. 



TsiNUK : Tsi'nuk — proper, Tilhiluit. 



Bilhoola : Nuthlakimish. 



TiNNfe: Tshilkotin, Nakuntlan, Takulli. 



Sahaptin : Klikatat (or Whulwhaipum). 



Kutenuha : Upper Kutenuha. 



This division is carried through the whole volume and also figures in the 

 ethnographic map added to it. It correctly divides the tribes into groups, btlt 

 if a purely linguistic division had to be attempted, the Kawitchin, Selish and 

 Bilhoola would have to be united into one family. A. S. G. 



