14 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
time progress was made on the preparatory work for the 
second part of the memoir. Under Dr. Boas’s direction Miss 
Mildred Downs listed the incidents of the Kwakiutl mythol- 
ogy preparatory to a discussion of the subject, and necessary 
additional information for this purpose was obtained from 
Mr. George Hunt, of Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island. Mr. 
Hunt submitted in all 460 pages of manuscript in response 
to questions, and sent botanical specimens that have been 
identified through the kindness of Dr. N. L. Britton, director 
of the New York Botanical Garden. 
The manuscript for Bulletin 59, Kutenai Tales, has been 
completed. All the texts having been set up during the 
preceding year, the abstracts and comparative notes, re- 
ferring to the pages of the bulletin, were written out (32 
pages of printed matter), and a vocabulary (140 pages of 
manuscript) based on the text was prepared. 
For the second part of the Handbook of American Indian 
Languages, Dr. Frachtenberg submitted his sketch of the 
Alsea grammar, which will be prepared for publication as 
soon as a@ sufficient number of texts are available. Con- 
siderable progress has been made in the preparation of the 
Kutenai grammar. Owing to the impossibility of com- 
municating with Mr. Bogoras in Russia, no progress has been 
made in proof reading the Chukchee grammar, which has 
been in type for more than three years, but which can not be 
completed without submitting the proofs to the author. 
During the year, however, Dr. Boas revised the Eskimo 
texts by Mr. Bogoras, for which a brief ethnological introduc- 
tion has been written by Dr. Ernest Hawkes. 
The results of the extended field work of Mr. James Teit, 
made possible through the generosity of Mr. Homer E. Sar- 
gent of Chicago, are nearing completion. At the present 
time two manuscripts are well advanced. One of these, 
consisting of about 1,000 pages, prepared jointly by Dr. 
Boas and Dr. H. K. Haeberlin, was submitted in May, accom- 
panied with a number of maps showing the distribution of 
Salishan dialects at various periods. It consists of a discus- 
sion of the characteristics of the various dialectic groups, 
comparative vocabularies on which the deductions are based, 
