CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



Boas (F.) — Coutiuned. 



Xote book no. 3. Chiuook texts with inter- 

 liuear traiislatious left-liaud i)a;j;e!J. grammati(; 

 and lexicograpliic explanations on riglit-hand 

 pages: Cikla, concluded, p.:!4; Okula'm, i> 38; 

 Kntsq. ]). 58 ; Crow and eagle, p. 7(» : Tlie child of 

 the West Wind, p. 75; Caqatl. p. 105; The 

 salmon, p. 113; Custom.s referring to war. p. 

 145; "War between the Kwileyut and C'lat.sop, 

 p. 146 ; The tii'st visit of a .ship, jt. 150 ; The sea- 

 lion hunters, j). 155: Kiiven aiul gull, )). 170; The 

 skunk, p. 174; Kluej;iy and his sister go visit- 

 ing (1). i>. 180; Marriage, p. 193; Bluejay and 

 robin. J). 197; Marriage, continued, p. 201; Blue- 

 jay and his sister (2). p. 203; Bluejay and his 

 sister (3), p. 214; Souls and Shamans, p. 228; 

 Adidescence of girls, p. 262 ; Birth, p. 267 ; Death 

 and sii'kness, p. 269 ; Whaling, p. 282; The elk 

 hunter, p. 288 ; The coyote and the salmon, p. 

 295; Potlatch, p. 313; <iitla'unatl<i, p. 318; The 

 crane, ]>. 331. — Katlauuit texts. Vi.sit to the 

 .sun, p. 31; The raccoon, p. 40; Ooyot* and 

 badger, p. 55; Panther and lynx. p. 68; Enio- 

 goalek. ji. 76 ; The seal, p. 87 ; Visit to the world 

 of the souls, p. 92 ; Tlgu'lak. p. 98 : The mink, p. 

 103; Robin and salmon berry, p. 119; Panther 

 and owl. p. 131 ; The coyote, p. 146; The famine, 

 p. 1.51. 



Note book no. 4. Chinook explanations of 

 texts, pp. 1-19. — Xotes on Chinook dialect from 

 the explanations of the Katlamet texts, pp. 19- 

 32. — Kalhimetexidanationa of texts, pp. 33-48. — 

 Katlania; taken from explanations of Chinook 

 texts. i>p. 48-54. 



Since the above was Dut in type I liave seen 

 a portion of this material in a more advanced 

 state of ]irep;»ration for the press. It still 

 requires about one hundred pages to make it 

 complete. It is headed as follows : 



Chinook Texts | Told by Charles 



Cnltee; | Kecoided and tiiiuslated | hy 

 I Frauz Boas. 



Manuscript. 11. i-iv. 1-252 folio, written on 

 one side onl.\' ; iu possession of its author. 



Introduction, 11. i-ii.— [Sounds of] letters, II. 

 iii-iv.— Cikla, their myth, with literal inter- 

 linear translation into English, 11. 1-13; a free 

 English translation, 11. 14-20. — Okula'm. her 

 myth, with literal interlinear translation into 

 English, 11. 21-33 ; a free English translation, 11. 

 34-42. — Anektiyo'lemiy, her myth, with inter- 

 linear English tran.slation. 11. 43-59; English 

 translation. 11. 59-70.— The salmon, his myth, 

 with interlinear English translation, 11. 72-90; 

 English tnin.slation. 11. 91-102.— Raven and gull, 

 their myth, with interlinear English translation. 

 11. 104-106 ; English translation. 11. 107-108.— 

 Coyote, his myth, with interlinear English 

 translation, 11. 109-119; English translaticm, 11. 

 119-123.— Tlie crane, his myth, with interlinear 

 English translation. 11. 125-128; English trans- 

 lation, 11. 129-130.— Enstiy. his myth, with inter- 

 linear Eiiglisli tran.slation, 11. 131-137; English 

 transhition. 11. 137-142.— The cr.tw. his story, 

 with interlinear English translation. 11. 143 145 ; 



Boas (F.) — Continued. 



English translation, 11. 145-147. — Caxas, his 

 myth, with interlinear English translation, 11. 

 148-152; English translation, 152-155.— Stikua, 

 her myth, with interlinear English translation, 

 11. 156-164; English translation. 11. 164-168.— The 

 skunk, his story, with Interlinear Englishtrans- 

 lation, 11. 169-172; Engli.shtranslation.il. 172-173. 

 —Robin, their myth, and Bluejays, with inter- 

 linear English translation, 11. 175-177; Englisli 

 tran.slation, 11. 178 -179.— Bluejay and loi. their 

 myth(l), with inferlinearEnglisli translation, 11. 

 180-186; English translation, 11. 18G-190.— The 

 same (2), 11.191-199. 199-202.— The same (3).I1. 

 203-215 (11. 209-214 missing).— LI. 216-235 miss- 

 ing.— Thesoul, with interlinear English transla- 

 tion. 11. 236-247; English translation, 11. 248-252. 



At the ch)se of each myth will appear explan- 

 atory notes. 



I copy the following notes from the Intro- 

 duction ; 



The following texts were collected in the 

 summers of 1890 and 1891. While studying the 

 Salishau languages of Washington and (Oregon 

 I heard that the dialects of the Lower Chinook 

 were on tlie verge of disap))earing; that only a 

 few individuals of the once powerful tribes of 

 the Clatsop and Chinook survived who remem- 

 bered their languages. This fact determined 

 me to make an effort to collect what little 

 remained of these languages. I first went to 

 Clatsop, where a small band of Indians is 

 located near Seaside. Clatsop County, Oresron. 

 Althougli a number of them belonged to the 

 Clatsop tribe, they had all adopted the Nehelini 

 language, a dialect of the S:ilishan Till.uuook. 

 This change of language was brought about by 

 frequent intermarriages with the Nehelim. I 

 found one middle-aged man and two old wonu^u 

 who still reuu»mbered the Clatsop language, 

 but I found it impossible to obtain more than a 

 vocabulary and a few sentences. The man had 

 forgotten too great a i»art of the language, while 

 the women were not able to gras]) what I 

 wanted. They claimed to ha\e forgotten their 

 myths and traditions, and could not or would 

 not give me any connected texts. One old 

 Clatsop woman, who Inid been married to a Mr. 

 Smith, was too sick to be seen and died soou 

 after my visit. The few remaining Clatsop 

 liad totally forgotten the history of their tribe 

 and even maintained that no allied dialect was 

 spoken north of Columbia River and on Shoal- 

 water Bay. They assured me that the whole 

 country was occupied by the Chilialis, another 

 Salishau tribe. They told me, however, that a 

 few of their relations, who still (continued to 

 speak Clatsop, lived on Shoalwater Bay among 

 the Chilialis. I went to search for these people 

 and found them located at Bay Center, Pacific 

 County, Washington. They proved to be the 

 last survivors of the Chinook, who ;it one time 

 occupied the greater part of Shoalwater Bay 

 and the northern bank of Columbia River as 

 f:ir ;is (^n-y's Harbor. The tribe has adopted 

 the Chihalis language in the same way iu which 



