Part I.—Ethnologic and Archæologic.—A Review of the Data for the Study of the Prehistoric Chronology of America. On Palæoliths, American and others. On the alleged Mongolian Affinities of the American Race. The Probable Nationality of the Mound-Builders of the Ohio Valley. The Toltecs of Mexico and their Fabulous Empire.
Part II.—Mythology and Folk-lore.—The Sacred Names in the Mythology of the Quiches of Guatemala. The Hero-God of the Algonkins as a Cheat and Liar. The Journey of the Soul in Egyptian, Aryan and American Mythology. The Sacred Symbols of the Cross, the Svastika and the Triqetrum in America. The Modern Folk-lore of the Natives of Yucatan. The Folk-lore of the Modern Lênapé Indians.
Part III.—Graphic Systems and Literature.—The Phonetic Elements in the Hieroglyphs of the Mayas and Mexicans. The Ikonomatic Method of Phonetic Writing used by the Ancient Mexicans. The Writings and Records of the Ancient Mayas of Yucatan. The Books of Chilan Balam, the Sacred Volume of the Modern Mayas. Translation of the Inscription on “The Stone of The Giants” at Orizaba, Mexico. The Poetry of the American Indians, with Numerous Examples.
Part IV.—Linguistic.—American Aboriginal Languages, and why we should study them. Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Researches in American Languages. Some Characteristics of American Languages. The Earliest Form of Human Speech, as Revealed by American Languages. The Conception of Love, as expressed in some American Languages. The Lineal Measures of the Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico and Central America. The Curious Hoax about the Taensa Language.
6-1 Beiträge zur Lehre der Wortzusammensetzung. Leiden. 1896.
6-2 In this connection I would refer students to an instructive passage of Heinrich Wrinkler on “Die Hauptformen in den Amerikanischen Sprachen,” in his work Zur Sprachgeschichte (Berlin, 1887) and to his essay on the Pokonchi Language in his Weiteres zur Sprachgeschichte, (Berlin, 1889).
6-3 See my remarks on this tongue in the American Anthropologist, August, 1898, p. 251.
6-4 Interesting examples in the Preface to S. T. Rand’s Micmac Dictionary (Halifax, 1888).
6-5 Notably with Steinthal’s Charakteristik des hauptsächlichsten Typen des Sprachbaues.
12-1 The Myths of the New World (third edition, 1896); American Hero Myths (1881).
12-2 Life and Traditions of the Red Man (Bangor, 1893).
12-3 New Views of the Origin of the Tribes of America (Philadelphia, 1798).
13-1 Actas del Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Tom. II., pp. 310-315.
13-2 See the article “The Curious Hoax of the Taensa Language,” in my Essays of an Americanist, pp. 452-467. (Philadelphia, 1890.)
13-3 In Tome XI., of the Bibliothêque Linguistique Américaine.
13-4 Privately printed, 1867.
16-1 See Garrick Mallery in 10th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 133, sqq. (Washington, 1893).
INDEX.
- Abenakis, 12
- Abipones, 6
- Achaguas, 6
- Adam, L., 13, 18
- Alaguilac language, 17
- Algonkin, 8, 11
- Algonquian mythology, 12
- Alikuluf, 19, 20
- American Authors, Aboriginal, 8
- American languages, 6
- American Race, the, 7
- Americanists, Congress of, 8
- “Anahuac”, 17
- Andagueda, 18
- Andoa, 20
- Anthony, A. S., 11
- Antillean languages, 18
- Arawack, 18, 19
- Asiatic analogies, 7
- Bailes, 9
- Barton, B. S., 12
- Berendt, C. H., 15, 17
- Betoya, 6, 7, 19
- Bonaris, 19
- Brasseur, E. C., 15, 17
- Byington, C., 10
- Cakchiquels, 9, 16
- Calchaqui, 20
- Calendar, native, 16
- Carib, 6, 13, 19
- Cataquina, 20
- Chaco, el Gran, 20
- Chane-abal language, 15
- Changuina, 18
- Chapanecs, 15
- Charua, 20
- Chiapas, 15
- Chilan Balam, 17
- Chinantec, 15
- Choco, 19
- Choctaw Grammar, 10
- Cholona, 19
- Chontallis, 16
- Cocanuca, 7
- Costa Rica, 7, 18
- Creeks, 9
- Cuba, language of, 18
- Ennima, 20
- Gatschet, A. S., 9, 11, 13
- Gluscap, 12
- Gods, names of, 15
- Granger, H. G., 19
- Grasserie, R., 20
- Guatemala, 15, 17
- Guaycuru, 20
- Güegüence, 9
- Guetares, 18
- Haiti, language of, 18
- Hale, H., 9
- “Hastri” language, 13
- Hongote, 19
- Huasteca, 6
- Humboldt, W. von, 6
- Huron, 9
- Leca, 19
- Lenâpé, 9, 11
- Lenâpé Dictionary, 11
- Lenâpé Conversations, 11
- Lencas, 16
- Lengua, 20
- Library of Aborig. Literature, 8
- Lineal Measures, 16
- Love, Conception of, 8
- Lucayan, 18
- Lule, 6, 20
- Maipure, 6
- Manao, 19
- Mandingo language, 12
- Mangue, 15
- Mata co, 20
- Matagalpan, 7
- Maya, 6, 8, 16
- Mayan Hieroglyphics, 16
- Mayan Inscriptions, 14
- Mazatec, 19
- Mbaya, 6
- Measures, lineal, 16
- Mexican, 6
- Micmacs, 6
- Mixes, 16
- Mixteca, 7, 16
- Mocoa, 7
- Mocovi, 7
- Mohawk, 9
- Morphology of Amer. Langs., 6
- Mosquito Coast
- Muller, H. C., 6
- Muskokee, 11
- Mythology, American, 12
- Myths of New World, 12
- Nahuatl, 6, 8, 10
- Nahuatl-Spanish jargon, 9
- Nanticoke, 12
- Natchez, 12
- Nicaragua, 15
- Nicolar, J., 12
- Noanama, 18
- Pacasa, 19
- Paniquita, 7
- Pareja, F., 13
- Payagua, 20
- Pilling, J. C., 4
- Pinart, A., 15
- Poetry, Aboriginal, 8
- Polysynthesis, 6
- Popolucas, 16
- Primitive speech, 7
- Puelche, 19
- Puquina, 20
- Rafinesque, C. S., 11
- Ramas, 18
- Rand, S. F., 6
- Rate of change, 7
- Rebus writing, 16
- Red Score, the, 9, 11
- Rig Veda Americanus, 10
- Sahagun, 10, 17
- Samucu, 20
- Schultz, Rev., 18
- Shawnees, 19
- Smith, B., 13
- Standard Dictionary, the, 7
- Steinthal, H., 6
- “Stone of the Giants”, 16
- Svastika, the, 20
- Tacana, 19
- Taensa, 13
- Taino, 18
- Tamanaca, 6
- Tarascos, 16
- Tehuelche, 19
- Teknnika, 19
- Tequistlatecan, 7
- Timote., 7
- Timuquana, 13
- Tinné, 18
- Toltecs, the, 20
- Totonaco, 6
- Triquetrum, the, 20
- Tsoneca, 19
- Tucanos, 19
- Tupi, 6, 8, 20
- Tzental, 16
- Ulvas, 16
- Verb, the American, 6