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James Pilling

James Constantine Pilling (November 16, 1846, in Washington, D.C. – July 26, 1895) was an American Congressional stenographer-transcriptionist and a pioneering ethnologist chiefly known for compiling a series of extensive bibliographies of the cultures, mythologies and languages of the North and Central American aboriginal peoples. Beginning in 1875, when he joined the survey of the American West led by Maj. John Wesley Powell, and continuing through 1881, Pilling did extensive fieldwork and proofread Powell's ''Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States'' (1879). Provided by Wikipedia
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    Catalogue Of Linguistic Manuscripts In The Library Of The Bureau Of Ethnology. (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (Pages 553-578)) by Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895

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    First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895 [Contributor]; Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 [Contributor]; Holden, Edward S. (Edward Singleton), 1846-1914 [Contributor]; Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894 [Contributor]; Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895 [Contributor]; Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883 [Contributor]; Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923 [Contributor]; Yarrow, H. C. (Harry Crécy), 1840-1929 [Contributor]; Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 [Editor]

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