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and Distribution, Manufacture (including Basketry, Matting, Weav- 
ing and Netting), Houses and Households, Clothing and Personal 
Adornment, Subsistence (including Hunting, Fishing, Sealing, and 
Whaling), Travel, Transportation and Trade, Warfare, Games and 
Pastimes, Social Organization and Festivals, Ceremonials and Socie- 
ties, Pregnancy, Birth, Childhood, Twins, Puberty, Customs regard- 
ing Women, Marriage, Burial Ceremonies, Religion (including Con- 
ception of the World, Country of the Souls, Prayers and Observances, 
Guardian Spirits, Beliefs regarding the Soul, Shamanism, Ethical 
Concepts and Teachings), Medicine, Surgical Operations, Charms, 
Current Beliefs, Physical and Mental Traits, Decorative Art, Music 
and Dancing. This material is contained in 8 volumes numbering 
approximately 600 manuscript pages. In addition, Dr. Frachtenberg 
obtained several hundred native drawings and took photographs of 
some 150 specimens of material culture. He also added considerably 
to his previous collection of Quileute traditions, by collecting addi- 
tional 22 native myths and traditions (in Quileute) and 3 narratives 
in English. These myths and tales comprise 200 pages. Further- 
more, Dr. Frachtenberg succeeded in inducing two inhabitants of 
Clallam County, Washington, to present to the National Museum 
their valuable collections of Quileute baskets and specimens. These 
collections contain over 200 baskets, two carved house-posts, and 
approximately 25 specimens illustrating the material culture and 
ceremonial life of the Quileute Indians. 
The comprehensive study of the ethnology and language of the 
Quileute Indians, conducted by Dr. Frachtenberg during the calendar 
years 1915 and 1916, has brought out some very important points, 
a few of which may be mentioned here in passing. Unlike the other 
tribes of the Pacific Coast, the Quileute Indians are not a vanishing 
tribe. On the contrary, these Indians are gradually, though slowly, 
increasing. Although since 1883 they were subjected to 5 separate 
epidemics of measles, smallpox, whooping cough, and grippe, their 
number has increased during that period by more than to indi- 
viduals. The proportion of half-breeds among them is exceedingly 
small, and they are undoubtedly the most moral and law-abiding 
tribe of that area. This condition seems to be due to their com- 
plete isolation from the other tribes and from the white people, 
and to their persistence in adhering to the former customs and 
beliefs. A good proportion of these Indians are members of the 
Shaker Church, whose chief doctrine is total abstinence from gam- 
bling, smoking, and liquor. Up to about 4 years ago the Quileute 
still hunted whales in the open sea. In former years whale-hunting 
