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typewritten pages. From the beginning of the fiscal year until Sep- 

 tember 15 Mr. Harrington devoted his attention to the Purismerio 

 dialect, the existing vocabularies being corrected by the informant, 

 and many new words and grammatical forms added. The next three 

 weeks were spent on the Obispefio with satisfactory results, inasmuch 

 as the material obtained in former years was more than doubled. 

 The sole informant's feeble health made the recording of this ma- 

 terial unusually difficult, but it will prove to be of great local as well 

 as of general interest. The remainder of the fiscal year was devoted 

 to Ventureno and Inesefio. While not so nearly lost as Obispefio, it 

 is too late to obtain complete information on these dialects, but in 

 the process of their study many important points have been deter- 

 mined. It is largely from their study that the picture of former 

 Chumashan life must be reconstructed. 



The study of the material culture of the Chumashan Tribes has 

 not been neglected, and in this work archeological material has 

 been of assistance. Among the important points determined are 

 details concerning the making of the ancient deerskin dress of the 

 women, which consisted of a large back flap and a smaller apron. 



From the beginning of the fiscal year to the middle of January, 

 1917, Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg, special ethnologist, was engaged in 

 field work in the State of Washington, where he devoted special 

 attention to the Quileute Indians and to collecting additional lin- 

 guistic and mythological material. The ethnologic investigations 

 covered the subjects of history and distribution, manufacture, houses 

 and households, clothing and ornaments, subsistence, travel and 

 transportation, warfare, games and pastimes, social organization 

 and festivals, social customs, religion, medicines, charms and current 

 beliefs, and art, and the recorded results consist of 577 manuscript 

 pages. In addition, Doctor Frachtenberg recorded 156 native songs, 

 including words and translations; he also obtained several hundred 

 native drawings illustrating the material culture of the Quileute, 

 and photographed a like number of ethnologic specimens. Further- 

 more, he materially added to his linguistic and ethnologic studies 

 of this people, commenced during the preceding year, by collecting 

 several thousand additional grammatical forms and phrases, and by 

 recording 22 new native traditions with interlinear translations, and 

 3 stories in English. These texts, in the form of field notes, comprise 

 176 pages. While engaged in this field work Doctor Frachtenberg 

 was instrumental in inducing Mrs. Martha Washburn, of Neah Bay, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Theo R. Rixon, of Clallam Bay, and Mrs. Fannie Tay- 

 lor, of Moran, to give to the National Museum a part of their collec- 

 tions of Makah and Quileute specimens, including two old totem poles, 

 approximately 100 baskets, and more than 30 other ethnologic speci- 

 mens. In addition to the Quileute studies mentioned, Doctor Fraeh- 

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