LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
BurEAvU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 
Washington, D. C., March 3, 19165. 
Sir: I respectfully submit herewith for your consideration the 
manuscript of a work entitled ‘“Kutenai Tales,” by Franz Boas, 
“together with texts collected by Alexander Francis Chamberlain,” 
with the recommendation that this material be published, with your 
approval, as Bulletin 59 of this Bureau. 
Yours, very respectfully, 
F. W. Hopes, 
Ethnologist-in-Charge. 
Dr. CHartes D. WaLcorTrT, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
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