REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 5a 
Much time was devoted by Dr. Boas during the year to the prepara- 
tion of a report on the mythology of the Tsimshian Indians, based on 
material written during a period of 10 years by Henry W. Tate, 
himself a Tsimshian. Owing to his recent death it was necessary to 
close the collection, the expenses of which have been defrayed from 
private sources. 'The monograph was completed and is in type for 
publication in the thirty-first annual report. 
Brief reference to the researches of Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg, 
ethnologist, has been made in connection with the preparation of 
part 2 of the Handbook of American Indian Languages. The begin- 
ning of the fiscal year found Dr. Frachtenberg in the field in Oregon, 
where, from June to September he was engaged in linguistic and 
ethnologic work on the Kalapooian family. During these months he 
collected a number of grammatical notes and nine texts in the dialect 
of the so-called Calapooia Proper, but owing to lack of sufficient 
means for continuing this field work he was compelled to discontinue 
it in October. The linguistic researches into the Kalapooian family 
brought out a number of interesting points, of which the most salient 
are as follows: Phonetically the family is related closely to the Lutu- 
amian (Klamath) and Sahaptin groups. Certain pronominal forms 
and a few numerical terms are identical with the Klamath and Sa- 
haptin forms. In all other respects, chiefly morphological, Kal- 
apooian bears close resemblance to the Coos, Siuslaw, and Yakonan 
stocks. A particularly close affiliation exists between this and the 
Coos family in the phonetic structure of words. While the phonetics 
of both languages are divergent, both are what may be termed vocalic 
languages and are practically free from any difficult consonantic 
clusters. The Calapooia texts thus far obtained deal chiefly with 
the Coyote cycle and are identical with myths found among the Coos, 
Molala, Klamath, Maidu, Chinook, Alsea, Takelma, Salish, and other 
tribes of the Pacific area. The mythology as a whole is typical of 
that region in the absence of true creation myths and in the multitude 
of transformation stories. 
A survey of the linguistic phase of the Kalapooian stock shows it 
to embrace the following dialects: Calapooia Proper (also called 
Marysville), Chelamela, Yamhill, Atfalati, Wapato Lake, Ahant- 
sayuk, Santiam, Lakmayut, and Yonkallat. These dialects show cer- 
tain degrees of interrelationship, which may be formulated as follows: 
Calapooia, Santiam, Lakmayut, and Ahantsayuk form one closely re- 
lated group; another group embraces the Yamhill and Atfalati 
dialects, while Yonkallat seems to constitute a group of its own. No 
information as to the Chelamela dialect could be obtained. 
In July Dr. Frachtenberg received what seemed to be trustworthy 
information that some Willapa Indians were still living at Bay Cen- 
ter, Wash., but on visiting that point he found the reputed Willapa 
