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On returning to Chemawa, Dr. Frachtenberg took up the 

 editing and ty^iewriting of his grammatical sketch of the 

 Alsea language, the compilation of which was completed dur- 

 ing the previous winter ; this was finished in the early ]3art of 

 October, and the complete sketch, consisting of 158 sections 

 and 421 typewritten pages, was submitted for publication 

 in the second part of the Handbook of American Indian 

 Languages (Bulletin 40). Dr. Frachtenberg interrupted this 

 work on August 22 and took a short trip to the Siletz Reser- 

 vation, where he collected 52 Athapascan and Shastan songs, 

 which were transmitted to the bureau for future analysis. 



On October 7 he proceeded to the Quileute Reservation, 

 where he enlisted the services of a Quileute informant, with 

 whom he returned to Chemawa, and brought to a successful 

 completion the study of the grammar and mythology of the 

 Quileute tribe. This investigation extended from October 

 until the latter part of March. The material collected by Dr. 

 Frachtenberg during this period consists of 30 native myths 

 and traditions fully translated, a large body of notes to 

 these texts, voluminous grammatical forms, and vocables. 

 In January Dr. Frachtenberg left Chemawa for a short trip 

 to the Grande Ronde Reservation, Oreg., where he recorded 

 19 Kalapuya songs on the dictaphone. 



As Dr. Frachtenberg's allotment for field work among the 

 Quileute was then exhausted, he was obliged to remain at 

 Chemawa until the close of the fiscal year. He therefore 

 undertook the correction of the page proofs of his gram- 

 matical sketch of the Siuslaw language (pp. 431-629), and 

 on its completion engaged in translating, editing, and type- 

 writing the Alsea texts collected in 1910. The editing of these 

 texts involved much labor, since it was deemed advisable to 

 present in the introduction a complete discussion of Alsea 

 mjrthology, and a concordance between the folklore of this 

 tribe and the myths of the other tribes of the Pacific coast. 

 For that purpose aU the published works on the folklore of 

 the tribes of the northwestern area were consulted, including 

 that of the Maidu, Shasta, Yana, Klamath, Takelma, Coos, 

 Lower Umpqua, Tillamook, Chinook, Kathlamet, Wishram, 

 Quinault, Chilcotin, Shuswap, Thompson River, Lillooet, 



