heport of the secretary. 63 



traditions in all). It comprises, in addition to the introdiition, 392 

 typewritten pages, and will be submitted for publication as a bulletin 

 of the bureau. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 



Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, continued his researches con- 

 nected with the preparation of the remainder of part 2 of the Hand- 

 book of American Indian Languages, assisted by Dr. Hermann K. 

 Haeberlin, Miss H. A. Andrews, and Miss Mildred Downs, and also 

 devoted attention to the completion of the report on Tsimshian 

 mythology. 



The bulletin on " Kutenai Tales," for which galleys were received in 

 July, 1915, has been revised twice and is nearing completion. The 

 page proof is Being extracted preparatory to the accompanying 

 grammatical sketch and vocabulary. 



Through the liberality of Mr. Homer E. Sargent, of* Chicago, it 

 has been possible to do much work on the preparation of an extended 

 paper on the Salish dialects, now comprising about 500 pages of 

 manuscript. The material has been collected since 1886, partly by 

 Dr. Boas himself and partly by Mr. James Teit, the considerable 

 expense of the field work of Mr. Teit having been generously met 

 by Mr. Sargent. In the course of the last 30 years it has been pos- 

 sible to collect vocabularies of all the Salish dialects, sufficient to 

 afford a clear insight into the fundamental relations of these dialects, 

 a preliminary work necessary to a more thorough study of the lan- 

 guage. At the same time Mr. Teit gathered ethnological notes which 

 are to be included in this work. The preparation of the vocabularies 

 and of the detailed comparison that had been begun in previous 

 years by Dr. Boas has been continued by Dr. Haeberlin, the basis of 

 this study being their manuscript material and the published sources. 

 Also through the liberality of Mr. Sargent and in cooperation with 

 Columbia University in the city of New York, Dr. Haeberlin will 

 be able to supplement his material by an investigation of one of the 

 tribes of Puget Sound. 



The interest of Mr. Sargent has also made possible a detailed study 

 of the Salish basketry of the interior plateau and the preparation of 

 the illustrations for a memoir on this subject. For the latter purpose 

 there have been utilized the collections of the United States National 

 Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the University 

 Museum of Philadelphia, the Museum of the American Indian (Heye 

 Foundation) , and the private collections of Mr. Sargent and others. 



The preparation of a manuscript on the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl 

 Indians has been well advanced. The material for the first volume, 

 which is to contain data collected by Mr. George Hunt, has been 

 completed, excluding a number of translations which remain to be 



