ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 103

suture synostosed. The frontal bone is long and narrow. Superciliary
ridges large. Double temporal lines well developed. Depression all
around the cranium behind the coronal suture. Hxostosis at obelion.

Fie. 36.—Bull Harbour, No. 90.

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Protuberantia odcipitalis very large. Squama occipitalis narrow, high.
Foramen magnum small; condyles small ; mastoid process large. Inci-
sura mastoidea of right side small. Nose very high and narrow; lower
edge sharp. Orbits large.

It seems that the lateral compression of the cranium affects also the
face, as the indices of the upper face and of the nose show.

LINGUISTIOCS.
KWAKIUTL.

In the following notes observations on the Heiltsuk: and Kwakiutl dialects of
this stock are contained. The former were obtained in the years 1888 and 1889
from a number of men who visited Victoria. The latter are derived from collections
made at Hope Island and Alert Bay, 1886 ; Victoria, 1888; and Alert Bay, 1889.
I give only such parts somewhat fuller in which my conclusions differ from those of
the Rev. Alfred J. Hall, whose notes on the grammar of the Kwakiutl language were
published in the ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada,’ 1888, sec. pigeeel 65501
the following chapter means Kwakiutl dialect ; H. means Hé'iltsuk: dialect.

PHONETICS.

A

Vowels : a Gy ee i Oy UL
Consonants: b, p; W; m; gy, kH; g, k; g’, k'; q, Q; y, H3 d,t, n; 8, ts;
Ce, tc) ;_1; dl, tl; h.

There is a strong tendency to elimination of vowels in the Héiltsuk: dialect.

-_ - See wee eee oe cee ee ee ee ee