James Constantine Pilling

“ It has been the effort of the author to connect the study of language with the study of other branches of anthropology, for a language is best understood when the habits, customs, institutions, philosophy—the subject-matter of thought embodied in the language—are best known. ”

“ These vocabularies are arranged in parallel columns for comparative purposes, and contain from 1,500 to 1,700 words each. The manuscript was submitted to Mr. J. H. Trumbull, of Hartford, Conn., for examination, and was by him copied on slips, each containing one English word and its equivalent in the dialects given above, spaces being reserved for other dialects. They were then sent to Mrs. A. E. W. Robertson, of Tullahassee, Ind. T., who inserted the Chickasaw. These cards are also in the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology.
—— Vocabulary of the Osage; 200 words. ”

“ For the purpose of ascertaining the more obvious relations between the various members of existing families this number is deemed sufficient. The remote affinities must be sought in a wider research, demanding a degree of acquaintance with their languages beyond the reach of transient visitors. ”

“ The student of language should be a student of the people who speak the language; and to this end the book has been prepared, with many hints and suggestions relating to other branches of anthropology."
The title of this publication is as follows:
Smithsonian Institution—Bureau of Ethnology | J. W. Powell Director | Introduction | to the | Study of Indian Languages | with | Words Phrases and Sentences to be Collected | By J. W. Powell | Second edition—with charts | Washington | Government Printing Office | 1880
Pp. i-xii, 1-228, and 8 ruled leaves. 4o. ”

“ Pilling (James C.) . Words and Phrases in the Wundát or Wyandot Language.
36 ll. folio. In Introduction to Study of Indian Languages, 1st ed., incomplete. Collected from John Grayeyes, a Wyandot Chief, 1880.
Pope (Maj. F. L.) . Vocabulary of Words from the Siccany Language.
14 pp. 4o. "The tribe known as the Sicannies inhabit the tract of country lying to the northwest of Lake Tatla, in British Columbia, and their language is nearly the same as that spoken by the Connenaghs, or Nahonies, of the Upper Stikine."
Poston (Charles D.) . Vocabulary of the Pima Indians of Arizona; 180 words. ”

“ The informants were two young men, the brothers Leonard and Willie Smith, pure blood Shasti (or Sásti) Indians, who had come from the Grand Ronde Indian Agency, a distance of 25 miles. Their old home is the Shasti Valley, near Yreka, Cal.
—— Shasti-English and English-Shasti Dictionary.
69 ll. sm. 4o. Obtained from "White Cynthia", a Klamath woman living at Klamath Lake Reservation, Williamson River, Lake County, Oregon, in September, 1877. Dialect spoken at Crescent City, Cal.
—— Vocabulary of the Sáwăno or Shawnee. ”

“ Semple (J. E.) . Vocabulary of the Clatsop Language; 35 words.
1 l. 4o. Collected in 1870, near Fort Stevens, Oregon.
Sherwood (Lieut. W. L.) . Vocabulary of the Sierra Blanco and Coyotero Apaches, with notes. ”