[298]Adam, L., Congres Int. des Am., 1877, p. 244 (see [p. 162 infra]).
[299]Gallatin, “Synopsis of Indian Tribes,” Trans. Am. Antq. Soc., 1836, p. 358. The next fourteen lists are, with the exception of the Micmac, from the same collection. The meanings are largely from Trumbull, op. cit.
[300]Schoolcraft, Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge, Vol. II. p. 211.
[301]Schoolcraft, Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge, Vol. V. p. 587.
[302]In the Dakota dialects 10 is expressed, as here, by a word signifying that the fingers, which have been bent down in counting, are now straightened out.
[303]Boas, Fifth Report B. A. A. S., 1889. Reprint, p. 61.
[304]Boas, Sixth Report B. A. A. S., 1890. Reprint, p. 117. Dr. Boas does not give the meanings assigned to 7 and 8, but merely states that they are derived from 2 and 3.
[305]Op. cit., p. 117. The derivations for 6 and 7 are obvious, but the meanings are conjectural.
[306]Boas, Sixth Report B. A. A. S., 1889. Reprint, pp. 158, 160. The meanings assigned to the Tsimshian 8 and to Bilqula 6 to 8 are conjectural.
[307]Hale, Ethnography and Philology, p. 619.