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tion of the work on the Kalapnya linguistic family commenced two 

 summers ago. This work lasted until the latter part of July. In 

 . conjunction with this particular phase of field work, Dr. Frachten- 

 berg corrected the second revision of the galley proofs of his Siuslaw 

 grammatical sketch to appear in the second part of Bulletin 40. 



On returning to Chemawa, Dr. Frachtenberg took up the editing 

 and typewriting of his grammatical sketch of the Alsea language, 

 the compilation of which was completed during the previous winter; 

 this was finished in the early part of October, and the complete sketch, 

 consisting of 158 sections and 421 typewritten pages, w^as submitted 

 for publication in the second part of the Handbook of American 

 Indian Languages (Bulletin 40). Dr. Frachtenberg interrupted this 

 work on August 22 and took a short trip to the Siletz Reservation, 

 where he collected 52 Athapascan and Shastan songs, which were 

 transmitted to the bureau for future analysis. 



On October 7 he proceeded to the Quileute Reservation, where he 

 enlisted the services of a Quileute informant, with whom he returned 

 to Chemawa and brought to a successful completion the study of the 

 grammar and mythology of the Quileute Tribe. This investigation 

 extended from October until the latter part of March. The material 

 collected by Dr. Frachtenberg during this period consists of 30 

 native myths and traditions fully translated, a large body of notes to 

 these texts, voluminous grammatical forms, and vocables. In Janu- 

 ary Dr. Frachtenberg left Chemawa for a short trip to the Grand 

 Ronde Reservation, Oreg., where he recorded 19 Kalapuya songs 

 on the dictaphone. 



As Dr. Frachtenberg's allotment for field work among the Quileute 

 was then exhausted, he was obliged to remain at Chemawa until the 

 close of the fiscal year. He therefore undertook the correction of the 

 page proofs of his grammatical sketch of the Siuslaw language 

 (pp. 431-629), and on its completion engaged in translating, editing, 

 and typewriting the Alsea texts collected in 1910. The editing of 

 these texts involved much labor, since it was deemed advisable to 

 present in the introduction a complete discussion of Alsea mythology, 

 and a concordance beween the folklore of this tribe and the myths of 

 the other tribes of the Pacific coast. For that purpose all the pub- 

 lished works on the folklore of the tribes of the northwestern area 

 were consulted, including that of the Maidu, Shasta, Yana, Klamath, 

 Takelma, Coos, Lower Umpqua, Tillamook, Chinook, Kathlamet, 

 Wishram, Quinault, Chilcotjn, Shuswap, Thompson River, Lillooet, 

 Haida, Tlingit, Kwakiutl, Tsimshian, Bellacoola, and the Athapascan 

 Tribes of the north. This work was practically completed by the 

 close of the fiscal year. The collection consists of 8 creation myths, 

 13 miscellaneous tales, 3 ethnological and historical narratives, 4 

 statements as to religious beliefs, and 3 tales collected in English (31 



