54 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1917. 



tenberg collected 88 pages of Makah (Nootka) linguistic data, 57 

 pages of Quinault (Salish), and 18 pages of Clallam (Lkungen). 

 While in Portland, Oregon, he obtained through the courtesy of the 

 municipal authorities a fine collection of photographs representing 

 several hundred archeological objects owned by the city. 



Doctor Frachtenberg returned to Washington early in February. 

 Subsequently, after conference with Dr. Franz Boas, honorary 

 philologist of the bureau, it was arranged that Doctor Frachtenberg 

 prepare for the Handbook of American Indian Languages compara- 

 tive sketches of the Kalapuya, Molala, Klamath, and Quileute, and 

 possibly one of the Salish languages. He also engaged in the final 

 preparation of his paper, Alsea Texts and Myths, which is now in 

 process of printing as Bulletin 67. He next proceeded to prepare 

 for publication the results of his earlier investigations of the lan- 

 guage, etlniology. and mythology of the Kalapuya Indians, which 

 will consist of two papers: A Grammatical Sketch of the Kala- 

 puya Languages and Kalapuya Myths and Texts. The Kalapuya 

 grammatical material consists of extended field notes gathered in 

 1913 and 1914, and of gi'ammatical notes on the Atfalati collected by 

 Doctor Gatschet in 1877. Doctor Gatschet's material, comprising 

 421 pages of field notes, is of inestimable value; indeed it is to the 

 eflports of this untiring scholar that we owe the preservation of this 

 most important dialect of the Kalapuya language, since he obtained 

 his material, which includes also some valuable ethnologic data, from 

 the last full-blood Atfalati. Doctor Frachtenberg's own material 

 comprises several thousand grammatical forms, phrases, and voca- 

 bles, and 32 native texts with interlinear translation — 630 pages in 

 all. The preparation of these linguistic data, as well as the w^ork on 

 the Kalapuya myths and texts, is well under way. Six of the texts, 

 comprising 36 pages, have been prepared for publication; five of 

 these are provided with interlinear translation and with voluminous 

 notes in which attention is directed to the occurrence of similar myths 

 amorig other tribes. During his studies of the Kalapuya languages 

 Doctor Frachtenberg discovered that there is sufficient reason to be- 

 lieve that the Kalapuya, Takelman, and Chinookan languages are 

 genetically related, the determination being based not only on lexical 

 but also on structural and morphological material. This discovery 

 tends to establish a connecting link between some of the languages 

 of California and most of the languages spoken in Oregon. 



During the last two weeks of the fiscal year Doctor Frachtenberg 

 was temporarily detailed for special work in the Bureau of Investi- 

 gation of the Department of Justice. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 



Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, completed the preparation 

 of his manuscript on the ethnology of the Kwakiutl Indians, about 



