First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881

CHAPTER II.--Hints and Explanations.

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§ 1.--Persons 18 § 2.--Parts of the body 18 § 3.--Dress and ornaments 18 § 4.--Dwellings 20 § 5.--Implements and utensils 23 § 6.--Food 24 § 7.--Colors 25 § 8.--Numerals 25 § 9.--Measures 26 § 10.--Division of time 27 § 11.--Standards of value 27 § 12.--Animals 28 § 13.--Plants, &c. 29 § 14.--Geographic terms 29 § 15.--Geographic names 30 § 16.--The firmament, meteorologic and other physical phenomena and objects 30 § 17.--Kinship 30 § 18.--Social organization 38 § 19.--Government 40 § 20.--Religion 41 § 21.--Mortuary customs 42 § 22.--Medicine 43 § 23.--Amusements 44 § 24.--New words 45 Remarks on nouns 46 § 25.--Accidents of nouns--demonstrative and adjective pronouns 46 § 26.--Personal and article pronouns--transitive verbs 47 § 27.--Possession 49 § 28.--Intransitive verbs--adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and nouns used as verbs 49 § 29.--Voice, mode, and tense 51 § 30.--Additional investigations suggested 55 § 31.--On the best method of studying materials collected 59 § 32.--The rank of Indian languages 69