NO. 17 SMITHSOXJAN i:xi'l.{)KATIUNS, I916 II7 



Kroeber, of the University of California, and with Mr, John P. 

 Harrington, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, in regard to the 

 relations of the researches of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 with those of the University of California, especially with respect 

 to the ethnology and linguistics of the Indian tribes of northern and 

 southeastern California and the adjacent regions. This confer- 

 ence took place on December i and 2, and a report embodying its 

 results was sent to the Ethnologist-in-Charge of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. While in San Francisco, Dr. Frachtenberg 

 attended the meeting of the Pacific branch of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, reading four papers that 

 dealt with the ethnology, mythology, and philology of the Indian 

 tribes of Oregon and Washington. Dr. Frachtenberg returned 

 to Lapush on December 9, resuming his Quileute field-work. 



In the latter part of November it became evident that the appro- 

 jiriation granted Dr. Frachtenberg in the beginning of the fiscal 

 year would not be sufficient to enable him to bring the field-work 

 among the Quileute to a successful conclusion. Fortunately, an 

 offer for cooperation was received from Columbia University, 

 through the courtesy of Prof. Franz Boas, whereby Dr. Frachten- 

 berg was enabled to continue his field-work. The Bureau accepted 

 this ofifer, with the understanding that Dr. Frachtenberg would 

 devote this sum to a comprehensive study of the music of the 

 Quileute Indians, with special reference to the problem of song- 

 variation. Dr. Frachtenberg is, at the present writing', conducting 

 this investigation. He expects to collect about 80 songs, taking down 

 the tune, burden, and translation of each song and obtaining- the 

 identical songs at separate times by the same and by distinct individ- 

 uals. Dr. Frachtenberg expects to complete this work by the latter 

 part of January, 1917, and will then return to Washington. 



STUDIES AMONG THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 



Mr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, was engaged during the 

 year in continuing his exhaustive study of the Chumashan Indians of 

 the Santa Barbara region of California. January was spent at 

 Berkeley, Cal., where linguistic and historical manuscripts in posses- 

 sion of the Bancroft library were copied and studied, through the 

 courtesy of the T'niversity of California. In the course of the 

 summer this material was thoroughly worked over, transliterated, 

 and corrected with the aid of Indian informants. 



At the end of January Mr. Harrington returned to the Southwest 

 Museum, Los Angeles, where he spent the months of February and 



