48 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1915. 



beyond the power of money to buy," especially as her speech is the 

 most archaic of all the Chumashan dialects. For the convenience of 

 his field studies Mr. Harrington has established headquarters at Los 

 Angeles, where he has been granted the facilities of the Southwest 

 Museum by the courtesy of its officials. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 



The preparation of the second volume of the " Handbook of 

 American Indian Languages," under tlie editorship of Dr. Franz 

 Boas, honorary philologist, has progressed sloAvly, on account of the 

 impossibility of sending proofs to Eussia, where the author of the 

 section on the Chukchee and Eskimo resides. The chapter on 

 Siuslaw, by Dr. Frachtenberg, has been corrected and made up in 

 pages, forming pages 431 to 605 of the second volume. At the begin- 

 ning of the year Dr. Boas concluded his collection of Kutenai 

 material, which w as studied preliminary to the writing of the gram- 

 mar of this language. The texts collected by him were written out, 

 and the completed manuscript, consisting of 263 pages of Indian 

 texts and 269 pages of translation, has been submitted and set in 

 type, forming 125 galleys. The texts include some material collected 

 by the late Dr. A. F. Chamberlain, which was acquired by the bureau 

 and was revised by Dr. Boas. 



Much time has been spent by Dr. Boas in work on his memoir, 

 "Tsimshian Mythology," to accompany the thirty-first annual re- 

 port. During the fiscal year 1913-14 the tales themselves had been 

 set up. During the year now under consideration the manuscript 

 of the discussion of this material was completed and put in type; it 

 forms pages 394 to 867 of the annual report. In the mechanical work 

 of preparing the manuscript Dr. Boas was assisted by Miss H. A. 

 Andrews, who, besides the preparation of manuscript and proof 

 reading, did much of the laborious work of extracting and collating 

 material needed for the investigation. 



The manuscript on Eskimo mythology, intrusted to Waldemar 

 Bogoras and accepted for publication, together with an introduction 

 by Mr. Ernest Hawkes, is held in abeyance, owing to the impossibility 

 at the present time of communicating with the author in Russia. 



Dr. L. J. Frachtenberg, special ethnologist, left Washington on 

 July 6, 1914, going directly to Oregon for the purpose of concluding 

 bis investigations of the language, mythology, and culture of the 

 Kalapuya Indians, commenced during the previous fiscal year. 

 After a short trip to the Siletz and Grand Ronde Agencies in north- 

 western Oregon for the purpose of interviewing all available inform- 

 ants, he proceeded to Chemawa, Oreg., where he conducted his Kala- 

 puya investigations until December, and completed them at the 

 Grand Ronde Agency between December 13 and 20, which time was 



