Mooney, James. The Kiowa Language : Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-96. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898. First Edition. [11917]
Removed from the larger volume, this section is pages 389-444. 11 1/8 x 8 inches, newly stab-sewn. Very good.
This has a 2-page introduction to the language, followed by the Kiowa-English Glossary of 48 pages. Also, a brief bibliography of 5 pages.
James Mooney (1861-1921), b. Richmond, Indiana; d. Washington, D.C. Mooney was for thirty-six years a member of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, and was known for his studies of the Cherokee, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Sioux tribes of American Indians. He often lived among them to authentically record their languages, songs, traditions, &c.
