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Much time was devoted by Dr. Boas during the year to the prepara- 

 tion of a report on the mythology of the Tsimshian Indians, based on 

 material 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 connection with the preparation of 

 part 2 of the Handbook of American Indian Languages. The begin- 

 ning of the fiscal year found Dr. Frachtenberg in the field in Oregon, 

 Avhere, from Jur^e to September he was engaged in linguistic and 

 ethnologic work on the Kalapooian family. During these months he 

 collected a number of grammatical 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 Lutu- 

 amian (Klamath) and Sahaptin groups. Certain pronominal forms 

 and a few numerical terms are identical with the Klamath and Sa- 

 haptin forms. In all other respects, chiefly morphological, Kal- 

 apooian 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 multitude 

 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, Wapato Lake, Ahant- 

 sayuk, Santiam, Lakmayut, and Yonkallat. These dialects show cer- 

 tain degrees of interrelationship, which may be formulated as follows : 

 Calapooia, Santiam, Lakmayut, and Ahantsayuk form one closely re- 

 lated group; another group embraces the Yamhill and Atfalati 

 dialects, while Yonkallat seems to constitute a group of its own. No 

 information as to the Chelamela dialect could be obtained. 



In July Dr. Frachtenberg received what seemed to be trustworthy 

 information that some Willapa Indians were still living at Bay Cen- 

 ter, Wash., but on visiting that point he found the reputed Willapa 



