94 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
Takelma, Coos, Siuslaw, and Alsea languages of Oregon; 
the Kutenai, of Montana; and the Chukchee. The Takelma 
sketch was published in advance in separate form in 1912. 
During the present year the printing of the sketch of the Coos, 
by Leo J. Frachtenberg, which forms pages 297-429 of part 
2, was finished. The manuscript of the Siuslaw, also by 
Doctor Frachtenberg, was completed and revised, and, 
except for a small part, is in galley form. The Chukchee 
sketch likewise has been set up in galleys and revised, and 
new material on the dialects of the language, having become 
available, has been added. The printing of the sketch pro- 
ceeded necessarily slowly, since the notes had to be read by 
the author, Mr. Waldemar Bogoras, who lives in Russia. 
A full treatment of this grammar is particularly desirable, 
since it serves to define the relationships of the American 
languages toward the west. Doctor Frachtenberg, a fuller 
report of whose work will follow, has made progress with his 
studies of the Alsea. The grammatical material and the 
texts have been extracted and studied, and the latter, which 
are to form the basis of the sketch, have been copied for the 
printer. Dr. A. I. Chamberlain, a valued collaborator, 
whose untimely death we Jament, furnished a sketch of the 
Kutenai language. It was necessary to make a detailed 
study of this sketch. This was done by Doctor Boas partly 
during the winter in New York with the help of a Kutenai 
boy and partly during the month of June among the In- 
dians of Montana and British Columbia. The report on 
this sketch was completed. A certain amount of prepara- 
tory work for the sketch of the Salish language was also 
done, more particularly a map showing the distribution of 
the Salish dialect, based on researches by James Teit, was 
completed. The expense of the field work for this map, 
which has occupied four years, was met by Mr. Homer E. 
Sargent, of Chicago, to whose lively interest in the Hand- 
book and related subjects we are deeply indebted. The 
vocabularies on which the map is based are in an advanced 
stage of preparation. Much time was devoted by Doctor 
Boas during the year to the preparation of a report on the 
mythology of the Tsimshian Indians, based on material 
