ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 11 
tion also to paragraphing and punctuating the Indian origi- 
nals for the purpose of making them correspond with the 
English equivalents. By the close of the year the English 
translations were typewritten and put in almost final shape, 
while little work remained to complete the editing of the 
native texts. 
Mr. J. P. Harrmgton, ethnologist, spent the entire year in 
continuation of his intensive study of the Chumashan tribes 
of California, obtaining a large body of important informa- 
tion which at present is in various stages of elaboration and 
which will comprise about 1,200 typewritten pages. From 
the beginning of the fiscal year until September 15 Mr. Har- 
rington devoted his attention to the Purismeno dialect, the 
existing vocabularies being corrected by the informant, and 
many new words and grammatical forms added. The next 
three weeks were spent on the Obispefio with satisfactory 
results, inasmuch as the material obtained in former years 
was more than doubled. The sole informant’s feeble health 
made the recording of this material unusually difficult, but 
it will prove to be of great local as well as of general interest. 
The remainder of the fiscal year was devoted to Venturefio 
and Inesefio. While not so nearly lost as Obispeno, it is too 
late to obtain complete information on these dialects, but in 
the process of their study many important points have been 
determined. It is largely from their study that the picture 
of former Chumashan life must be reconstructed. 
The study of the material culture of the Chumashan tribes 
has not been neglected, and in this work archeological mate- 
rial has been of assistance. Among the important points 
determined are details concerning the making of the ancient 
deerskin dress of the women, which consisted of a large back 
flap and a smaller apron. 
From the beginning of the fiscal year to the middle of Jan- 
uary, 1917, Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg, special ethnologist, was 
engaged in field work in the State of Washington, where he 
devoted special attention to the Quileute Indians and to col- 
lecting additional linguistic and mythological material. The 
ethnologic investigations covered the subjects of history and 
distribution, manufacture, houses and households, clothing 
