ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 19 



Haida, Tlingit, Kwakiutl, Tsimshian, Bellacoola, and the 

 Athapascan tribes of the north. This work was practically 

 completed by the close of the fiscal year. The collection con- 

 sists of 8 creation myths, 13 miscellaneous tales, 3 ethno- 

 logical and historical narratives, 4 statements as to religious 

 beliefs, and 3 tales collected in English (31 traditions in all). 

 It comprises, in addition to the introduction, 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 connected with the preparation of the remainder 

 of part 2 of the Handbook 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 mytholog}\ 



The bulletin on "Kutenai Tales," for which galley proofs 

 were received in July, 1915, has been revised twice and is 

 nearing completion. The page proof is being extracted pre- 

 paratory 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 prepa- 

 ration of an extended paper on the Salish dialects, 

 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 

 possible to collect vocabularies of all the Salish dialects, suffi- 

 cient to afford a clear insight into the fundamental relations 

 of these dialects, a preliminary work necessary to a more 

 thorough study of the language. 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 j^ears 

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

 of this study being their manuscript material and the pub- 



