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There are four of these. The most northern is spoken in the villages 

 of the extreme northern end of Vancouver island and of Smith inlet ; 

 the second, in the region from Hardy bay to Nimkish river, including 

 the islands which form the eastern coast of Queen Charlotte sound; 

 the third is spoken in the neighborhood of Knight inlet ; and the last, 

 in Bute inlet and the region of Valdez island. 



The second of these dialects, which is spoken by the Kwakiutl 

 tribe of Vancouver island, forms the subject of the following discus- 

 sion. The proper name of the tribe is Kwa'g'ul; the name of its 

 language, Kwa'klwala. A treatise on the grammar of this language, 

 by Rev. Alfred J. Hall,^ was published in 1889; but the author has 

 not succeeded in elucidating its structural peculiarities. I have 

 published a brief sketch of the grammar in the Reports of the Com- 

 mittee on the Northwestern Tribes of Canada, appointed by the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science,^ and another in 

 the American Antliropologist.^ Texts in the language, collected by 

 me, were published by the United States National Museum,* and 

 other series of texts, also collected by me with the assistance of Mr. 

 George Hunt, will be found in the publications of the Jesup North 

 Pacific Expedition.^ A series taken down without the assistance 

 of Mr. Hunt from the lips of various informants will be found in 

 the Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology.^ Refer- 

 ences in the following sketch refer to volume iii of the Publications 

 of the Jesup Expedition, if not stated otherwise; v and x refer to 

 the respective volumes of the same series; U.S.N.M. to the paper in 

 the Annual Report of the United States National Museum for 1895; 

 CS to the Kwakiutl Tales in the Columbia University Series. The 

 first Arabic number of each reference indicates the page of the vol- 

 ume, the second the line on the page. 



1 A grammar of the Kwagiutl Language, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1888, ii, 57-105. 



s Sixth Report, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1891, G55-6GS; also Eleventh 

 Report, Ibid., 1896, 585-58C. 



3N.S., II, 708-721. 



* Annual Report for 1895, 311-737, particularly 005-731. 



6 Vol. in, Kwakiutl Texts, by Franz Boas and George Hunt. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1902-1905. Vol. X, 

 Parti, Kwakiutl Texts, Second Series, by Franz Boas and George Hunt. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1906. Vol. V, 

 Part 2, The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island, by Franz Boas. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1909. 



Kwakiutl Tales, by Franz Boas. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology , Vol. II. 



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