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DEPARTMENT OF MARINE AND FISHERIES
Desnedeyarelottine ('people of the great
river below'). An Etehareottine division
living on the banks of the upper Mackenzie
r., Nor. West. Ter.
Des-n6dhe-ya/56-rOttin6.—Petitot, Autour du lac des
Esclaves, 363, 1891. Gens du Fort Norman.—Petitot,
Diet. Ddn^-Dindji^, xx, 1876. Tess-cho tlnneh.
Ross quoted by Gibbs, MS., B. A. E., 1866. TPi-kka-
Gottine.—Petitot, Autour, op. cit. ('people on the
water').
Dictionaries. Dictionaries have been
made of at least 63 different North American
Indian languages belonging to 19 linguistic
families, besides many vocabularies of other
languages. Of 122 dictionaries mentioned
below more than half are stiU in manuscript.
Beginning with the Eskimauan family,
vocabularies of Greenland Eskimo have been
supplied by the labours of Egede (1750),
Fabricius (1804), Kleinschmidt (1871), Rink
(1877), and Kjer and Rasmussen (1893); of
Labrador Eskimo, by Erdmann (1864); of
Chiglit (Kcpagmiut), by Petitot (1876); and
there are collections by Pinart of the Aleutian
Fox (Unalaskan Aleut) dialect (1871, MS.),
and of that of the Kaniagmiut (1871-72, MS.).
In the Athapascan languages there are the
dictionaries of Vegreville for the Chipewyan
(1853-90, MS.), the threefold dictionary of
Petitot for the Montagnais (Chipewyan), Peau
de Lievre (Kawchodinne), and Loucheux
(Kutchin) (1876); of Radloff for the Kenai
(Knaiakhotana) (1874); of Garrioch (1885)
for the Beaver (Tsattine); of Morice for the
Tsilkotin (1884, MS.); of Matthews (1890,
MS.) and Weber (1905, MS.) for the Navaho;
and of Goddard for the Hupa (1904, MS.).
Of the languages of the Algonquian family,
the Cree has dictionaries by Watkins (1865),
Lacombe (1874), and Vegreville {ca. 1800,
MS.); the Montagnais, by Silvy {ca. 1678,
MS.), Favre (1696, MS.), Laure (1726, MS.),
and Lemoine (1901); the Algonkin, 3 by
anonymous Jesuit fathers (1661, 1662, 1667,
aU MS.) and 1 each by Andre {ca. 1688, MS.),
Thavenet {ca. 1815, MS.), and Cuoq (1886);
the Micmac, by Rand (Micmac-English, 1854,
MS., and English-Micmac, 1888) ; the Malecite-
Passamaquoddy, by Demillier (ca. 1840, MS.);
the Abnaki, by Rasles (1691, first printed in
1833), Aubery (1712-15, MS.), Lesueur {ca.
1750, MS.), Nudenans (1760, MS.), Mathevet
(ca. 1780, MS.), and Vetromile (1855-75, MS.);
the Natick Massachuset, by Trumbull (1903);
the Delaware, by Ettwein {ca. 1788, MS.),
Dencke {ca. 1820, MS.), Hemy (1860, MS.),
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Zeisberger (1887), and Brinton and Anthony
(1888); the Ojibwa (Chippewa), by Belcourt
{ca. 1840, MS.), Baraga (1853, new ed. 1878-
80), Wilson (1874), and F6rard (1890, MS.);
the Potawatomi, by Bourassa (da. 1840, MS.)
and Gailland {ca. 1870, MS.); the Ottawa,
by Jaunay {ca. 1740, MS.); the Shawnee, by
Gatschet (1894, MS.); the Peoria Illinois, by
Gravier {ca. 1710, MS.) and Gatschet (1893,
MS.); the Miami Illinois, by Le Boulanger
{ca. 1720, MS.); the Menominee, by Krake
(1882-89, MS.) and Hoffman (1892); the
Blackfoot (Siksika), by Lacombe (1882-83,
MS.), Tims (1889), and McLean (1890, MS.)
In the Iroquoian languages there are dictionaries
of the Huron (Wyandot), by Le
Caron (1616-25, MS.), Sagard (1632, repr.
1865), Breboeuf {ca. 1640, MS.), Chaumonot
{ca. 1680, MS.), and Carheil (1744, MS.); of
the Iroquois Mohawk, by Bruyas (1862),
Marcoux (1844, MS.), and Cuoq (1882); of
the Iroquois Seneca, by Jesuit fathers (MS.);
the Iroquois Onondaga, by Jesuit fathers
(printed in 1860); of the Iroquois Tuscarora,
by Mrs. E. A. Smith (1880-82, MS.) and
Hewitt (1886, MS.); besides extended glos-
saries of the Cherokee, by Gatschet (1881,
MS.) and Mooney (1885, MS.; and 1900, 19th
Rep. B. A. E.).
Other lingiiistic families are represented by
dictionaries or extended glossaries as follows:
* * * * * * Koluschan,
Chilkat, by Everette {ca. 1880, MS.);
Chimmesyan, Tsimshian, by Boas (1898,
MS.); Salishan, Kahspel by Giorda (1877-
79), Twana by Eells (m. 1880, MS.), and
NisqualUby Gibbs (1877); Chinookan, Chinook
by Gibbs (1863) and Boas (1900, MS.), and
Chinook jargon by Blanchet (1856), Gibbs
(1863), Demers (1871), Gill (1882), Prosch
(1888), Tate (1889), Coones (1891), Bulmer
(1891, MS.), St. Onge (1892, MS.), and
Eells (1893, MS.); Kitunahan, Kutenai, by
* *
Chamberlain (1891-1905, MS.). ****** (w. E.)
Dishes. Vessels for the preparation and
serving of food and other purposes were
manufactured by all Indian tribes. While
their use as receptacles prescribes a concavity
of circular, oval, or oblong outline, there is
a great variety of shape, decoration, etc.,
according to individual taste or tribal custom,
and a wide range of material, as stone, shell,
bone, ivory, horn, rawhide, bark, wood,
gourd, pottery, and basketry.