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ology of these Indians, who are almost extinct, constitutes a connect- 

 ing link between the tribes of the coast and those east of the Rocky 

 Mountains. While we possess numerous works dealing with the 

 mythology of the Indians of the northwest coast and of the Great 

 Plains, nothing has yet been published on the folklore of the tribes 

 that inhabit the area between the Coast Range and the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. Hence a volume on the mythology of the Kalapuya (and also 

 Molala) Indians will be a welcome contribution to our knowledge 

 of the folklore of the North American Indians. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 



Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, has been engaged in the cor- 

 rection of the proof of part 1 of his volume on the Kwakiutl-English, 

 which has been assigned) to the Thirty-fifth Annual Report. 



For various reasons part 2 of the Handbook of American Indian 

 Languages has been delayed. 



Good progress has been made by Dr. Boas on the dialects and dis- 

 tribution of the Salish Tribe, much work having been done on the 

 maps. This work, which is based on field work supported by Mr. 

 Homer E. Sargent, was almost completed by Dr. Haeberlin, whose 

 unfortunate death has somewhat curtailed the work on these tribes. 

 A very important work on the basketry of the Salish Tribes, funds 

 for which were also provided through the generosity of Mr. Sargent, 

 has made good progress. 



Prof. W. H. Holmes, of the National Museum, accompanied by 

 Mr. DeLancey Gill, of the bureau, made a brief visit to the Aberdeen 

 Proving Station, Maryland, where Indian remains had been reported 

 in excavations for Government buildings. He also continued the 

 preparation of the Handbook of American Antiquities, part 1 of 

 which will soon be published as Bulletin 60 of the bureau. 



Provision was made out of the appropriations of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology for a brief archeological reconnaissance in the 

 Walhalla Plateau overlooking the Grand Canyon, from the last of 

 April to the end of the fiscal year. Mr. Neil M. Judd, of the United 

 States National Museum, was detailed for this work. He found 

 remains of prehistoric buildings plentiful along the route of Kanab, 

 Utah, southeastward, in the northern portion of the Kanab forest, at 

 House Rock Valley, and in North, South, and Saddle Canyons. 

 These remains consist usually of one, two, and three room structures 

 constructed of unworked stone blocks. In many instances the foun- 

 dations of the walls were stones placed on edge, their tops separating 

 the masonry of the roof. Clusters of circular rooms, measuring from 

 4 to 10 feet in diameter, also occur. The floors of these rooms are 

 generally covered with burnt earth or ashes, mingled with clay that 

 bears impressions of willows and grass, as if parts of roofs similar 



