CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



Boas ( F.) — ContiiiiKil. 



Nulc, book no. :;. Chinook texts with iiilt-i 

 liiiciir IniiishitioiiH left-liaiid pa^'i-s. j;raiiiinali<- 

 ami Icxii-o^iniphir cxiihiiialioiirt on rijjht-lianil ^ 

 jmgcs: ('iklu.<oM<lnik-<l. y.'M; Okiihini. J) '-tH: I 

 Kntsq. )». 58; Criiw an<l eaj^lc \>. 7ll: Thr ( liilil of . 

 till- W.Mt Win.l. II. 75; Caq.itl, )). 105: Tlii^ [ 

 salmon. ]i. li:j; (iiMtoui.s rctVirin^ to war. |>. ; 

 145; "NVar between the Kwileyiit ami Clat.top, | 

 p. 14C ; The first visit of a ship. j). l.">0 : I'he sea \ 

 lion hunters, p. 155: Itaven and sull, p. 1"'>: The 

 skunk. ].. 174: Hliiejav and his si.ster go visit 

 in^ (1). p. 1811: Marriage, p. lit:i: Blue.jay and 

 rohin. p. 197: Maniav'e, eontinued. \>. '.'Ol ; blue 

 jay and his sister (2). p. 2u;i: IMiii-jay and his 

 sister (3), j). '214; Souls and Shamans, p. 228; I 

 Adoleseeneeof girls, j). 262: Birth. ]>. 207; Death , 

 and sickness, p. 269; Whaling, p. 282; Tlie elk ' 

 hunter, 1). 288; The eoyote and the salmon, p. 

 295; Potlatch, p.3i:!; Citla'unatlq, p.318; The 

 erane. p. 331.— Katlamat texts. Visit to the 

 sun, p. 31; The r.ieroon. p. 40; Coyote and 

 badger, p. .55: Panther anil lynx. p. 08; Enio- ■ 

 goah-k.i>.76; The seal. ji. 87; Visit to the world I 

 of 1 he souls, p. 92 ; Tlgu'lak. ]>. 98 ; Tlie mink. p. j 

 103; Kobin and salmon berry, p. 119; Panther [ 

 andowl. 1). 131: The eoyote. p. 146: The famine, 

 p. 151. 



Note book no. 4. Chinook explanations of 

 texts, pp. 1-19. — Notes on Chinook dialect from 

 ^ the explanations of the Katlani.t texts, pp. 19- 

 32.— Kallaiiietexplanafionsof texts. i>p. 33-48.— 

 Katlania; taken from explanations of Chinook 

 texts. i>p. 4H .54. 



Sinie the above was nut in type I have seen 

 a jiorlion of tliis material in a more advanced 

 atatt: of jireparation for the jiress. It still 

 requires about one hundred pages to make it 

 complete. It is headed as follows : 



Chinook Texts | Told by Cbailes 



Cnltee; | Recorded and ri;iiisliited | liy 

 I Ffuuz lioart. 



Manuscript. 11. i-iv, 1-252 folio, written on 

 one siile only : in possession of its author. 



Introduction, 11. i-ii.— [Sounds of] letters, 11. 

 iii-iv.— Cikla, their myth, with literal inter- 

 linear translation into Knglisli, 11. 1-13; a free 

 Knglish translation. 11. 14-20. — Okula'm. her 

 niytli. with literal interlinear translation into 

 Knglish, 11. 21-33; a free Knglish tran.slation. 11. 

 r{4-42. — Anektiyo'leniiy, her myth, with inter 

 linear Knglish translation. 11. 43-.59; Knglish 

 translation. II. .59-70.— The salmon, his myth, 

 with interlinear Knglish translation, 11. 72-90; 

 Knglish translation. 11. 91-102.— Raven and gull, 

 their myth, with interlinear Knglish translati<m, 

 11. 104-lOG: Hnsilisli translation. 11. 107 108.— 

 Coyote, his myth, with interlinear Knglish 

 translatioii.il. 109-119; Knglish translation, 11. 

 119-123.— The crane, his myth, witli intt-rlinear 

 Knglish tr.inslation.il. 125-128; Knglish trans- 

 lation, II. 129 lao.— Knstiy. his myth, with inter- 

 linear Knglish translation.il. 131-137; English 

 transhition. 11. 137-142. — The crow, his story, 

 with interlinear English translation. 11. 143-145: 



Boas ( F.) — Cofitiiiiied. 



Knglish translation, 11. 145-147.— Caxas, his 

 iiiytli.with interliniar Knglish translation, 11. 

 I4H 1.52; Knglish translation, 1.52-155.— Stikna, 

 her myth, with interlim-ar Knglish translation, 

 II. 156-164: Knglish translation. II. 104-168.— The 

 skunk, hisstory, withlnterlinear Knglishtrans- 

 latiou,ll. 169-172: Knglishtranslalion.il. 172-173. 

 —Kobin. their myth, and Hluejass. with inter- 

 linear Knglish translation. 11. 175-177; Knglish 

 tran.slation. 11. 178 179.--Iiluejay and loi. their 

 myth (1). with interlinear Knglish translation, II. 

 180-186: Knglish tran.slation. 11. 186-190.— The 

 same (2). 11. 191-19<t. 199-202.— The same (3). U. 

 20:i-215 (11. 209-214 missing).— LI. 210-2.35 miss- 

 ing. — The soul, with interlinear Knglish transla- 

 tion. 11. 236-247 ; English translation 11. 248-2.52. 

 At the close of each myth will appear explan- 

 atory notes. 



I copy the following notes from the Intro- 

 duction : 



The following texts were collected in the 

 sumniersof ]890and 1891. While studying the 

 Salishaii languages of Washington and Oregon 

 I lieaid that the dialects of the Lower Chinook 

 were on the v<-rge of disap|iearing: that only a 

 few individuals of the once powerful trilies of 

 theClatsoj) and Chinook survived who remem- 

 bered their languages. This fac-t determined 

 me to make an eflVirt to collect what little 

 remained of these languages. I first went to 

 Clatsop, where a small band of Indians is 

 l<M-ated near Seaside. Clafnop County. Oregon. 

 Although a iiumher of them belonged to the 

 Clatsop tribe, they had all a<loi>ted the Xehelim 

 language, a dialect of the S;ilisli:in Till.iniook. 

 This change of language was brought about by 

 frequent intermarriages with the Xehelim. I 

 found one middle-aged man and two old women 

 who still remembered the Clatso]> language, 

 but I found it impossible to obtain morethan a 

 vi>cabulary and a few sentences. The man had 

 forgotten too great a ])art of the language, while 

 the women were not able to gras]) what I 

 wanted. They claimed to have forgotten their 

 myths and traditions, and could not or would 

 not give me any connected texts. One (dd 

 Clatsop woman, who had been married to a Mr. 

 Smith, was too sick t<i be seen and died soon 

 after my visit. The few reiuaining Clatsop 

 had totally forgotten the hi.story of their tribe 

 and even maintaine<l that no allied dialect was 

 spoken north of Columbia River and on Shoal- 

 water Bay. They assured me that the whole 

 country was occujiied by the Chihalis, another 

 .Salishan tribe. They told me, however, that a 

 few of their relations, who still continued to 

 speak Clatsop, lived on Shoalwater Bay among 

 the Chihalis. I went to search for these people 

 and found them located at Bay Center, Pacific 

 County Washington. They proved to be the 

 last survivors of the Chinook, who at one time 

 occupied the greater jiart of Shoalwater Bay 

 and the northern bank of Columbia River as 

 f;ir :is drey's Harbor. The tribe has ailopted 

 the Chihalis language in the same way in which 



