Shoshoneanadj.n.

1891 J. W. Powell in 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–6 109 Very likely much of the area occupied by the Atsina was formerly Shoshonean territory.

1893 A. F. Chamberlain in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1892 589 A seeming similarity in a few points of general structure to the Shoshonian and to the Siouan tongues.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 466/2 Hopi or Moki. Shoshonean.

1904 Rep. U.S. Nat. Museum 1901–2 472 All the Shoshonean types of weaving, all their forms of baskets, and most of the patterns on them are ancient.

1921 A. F. Hall Handbk. Yosemite Nat. Park 51 The Mono..are an offshoot from the Paiutes and other Shoshoneans of Nevada and the Great Basin country.

1929 E. Sapir in Encycl. Brit. V. 138/1 Shoshonean..occupies the greater part of the Great Basin area and contiguous territory in southern California and the southwestern Plains.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. 430 The Uto-Aztec group comprises the three branches of Shoshonean, Pima-Sonoran, and Nahuatl.

1940 M. J. Rogers in E. C. Jaeger California Deserts xi. 117 In historic times the Mohave Desert had fallen almost entirely into the hands of the Shoshoneans.

1950 F. Eggan Social Organization W. Pueblos i. 13 By comparing the Hopi system with other Shoshonean systems, he came to the conclusion that ‘linguistic conservatism has been of slight importance in the history of the present Hopi nomenclature’.

1974 Amer. Anthropologist 76 11 (heading) An archaeological perspective on Shoshonean bands.