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2,700 pages of which was submitted to the bureau and assigned as 

 the accompanying paper of the thirty-fifth annual report, the com- 

 position of Avhich was commenced before the close of the fiscal year. 

 At the same time progress was made on the preparatory work for 

 the second part of the memoir. Under Doctor Boas's direction Miss 

 Mildred Downs listed the incidents of the Kwakiutl mythology 

 preparatory to a discussion of the subject, and necessary additional 

 information for this purpose was obtained from Mr. George Hunt, of 

 Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island. Mr. Hunt submitted in all 460 

 pages of manuscript in response to questions, and sent botanical 

 specimens that have been identified through the kindness of Dr. N. L. 

 Britton, director of the New York Botanical Garden. 



The manuscript for Bulletin 59, Kutenai Tales, has been completed. 

 All the texts having been set up during the preceding year, the ab- 

 stracts and comparative notes, referring to the pages of the bulletin, 

 were written out (32 pages of printed matter), and a vocabulary 

 (140 pages of manuscript) based on the text was prepared. 



For the second part of the Handbook of American Indian Lan- 

 guages Doctor Frachtenberg submitted his sketch of the Alsea gram- 

 mar, Avhich will be prepared for publication as soon as a sufficient 

 number of texts are available. Considerable progress has been made 

 in the preparation of the Kutenai grammar. Owing to the impossi- 

 bility of communicating with Mr. Bogoras in Russia, no progress has 

 been made in proof reading the Chukchee grammar, which has been 

 in type for more than three years, but which can not be completed 

 without submitting the proof to the author. During the year, how- 

 ever. Doctor Boas revised the Eskimo texts by Mr. Bogoras, for 

 which a brief ethnological introduction has been written by Dr. 

 Ernest Hawkes. 



The results of the extended field work of Mr. James Teit, made 

 possible through the generosity of Mr. Homer E. Sargent of Chicago, 

 are nearing completion. At the present time two manuscripts are 

 well advanced. One of these, consisting of about 1,000 pages, pre- 

 pared jointly by Doctor Boas and Dr. H. K. Haeberlin, was sub- 

 mitted in May, accompanied with a number of maps showing the 

 distribution of Salishan dialects at various f)eriods. It consists of a 

 discussion of the characteristics of the various dialetic groups, com- 

 parative vocabularies on which the deductions are based, and a few 

 simple texts. The material on which these studies are founded was 

 collected from field expeditions by Doctor Boas between 1886 and 

 1900, and by additional material gathered by Mr. Teit between the 

 latter date and the present year. 



Doctor Haeberlin has also undertaken to discuss the Salishan 

 basketry, for which purpose he has made detailed studies of various 

 collections in the United States and Canada. In connection with 



