ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 20 
written during a period of 10 years by Henry W. Tate, 
himself a Tsimshian. Owing to his recent death it was 
necessary to close the collection, the expenses of which have 
been defrayed from private sources. The monograph was 
completed and is in type for publication in the Thirty-first 
Annual Report. 
Brief reference to the researches of Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg, 
ethnologist, has been made in conriection with the preparation 
of part 2 of the Handbook of American Indian Languages. 
The beginning of the fiscal year found Doctor Frachtenberg 
in the field in Oregon, where, from June to September, he was 
engaged in linguistic and ethnologic work on the Kalapooian 
family. During these months he collected a number of gram- 
matical notes and nine texts in the dialect of the so-called 
Calapooia Proper, but owing to lack of sufficient means for 
continuing this field work he was compelled to discontinue it 
in October. The linguistic researches into the Kalapooian 
family brought out a number of interesting points, of which 
the most salient are as follows: Phonetically the family is 
related closely to the Lutuamian (Klamath) and Sahaptin 
groups. Certain pronominal forms and a few numerical 
terms are identical with the Klamath and Sahaptin forms. 
In all other respects, chiefly morphological, Kalapooian bears 
close resemblance to the Coos, Siuslaw, and Yakonan stocks. 
A particularly close affiliation exists between this and the 
Coos family in the phonetic structure of words. While the 
phonetics of both languages are divergent, both are what may 
be termed vocalic languages and are practically free from any 
difficult consonantic clusters. The Calapooia texts thus far 
obtained deal chiefly with the Coyote cycle and are identical 
with myths found among the Coos, Molala, Klamath, Maidu, 
Chinook, Alsea, Takelma, Salish, and other tribes of the 
Pacific area. The mythology as a whole is typical of that 
region in the absence of true creation myths and in the multi- 
tude of transformation stories. 
A survey of the linguistic phase of the Kalapooian stock 
shows it to embrace the following dialects: Calapooia Proper 
(also called Marysville), Chelamela, Yamhill, Atfalati, Wa- 
pato Lake, Ahantsayuk, Santiam, Lakmayut, and Yonkallat. 
