50 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. 



clently quite highly developed, both nets and harpoons having been 

 in use, but the whale was not hunted, although the flesh of stranded 

 Avhales was eagerly made use of. 



Mr. Harrington returned to Washington at the close of May and 

 spent the following month in the preparation of manuscript material. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 



Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, has been engaged in the 

 correction of the proof of the Thirty-fifth Annual Report. Contin- 

 ued correspondence with INIr. George Hunt, of Fort Rupert, Van- 

 couver Island, lias added a considerable amount of new material 

 to the original report. 



Preparatory work for the discussion of the ethnology of the Kwa- 

 kiutl Indians was also continued during the present year. A chap- 

 ter on j^lace names and another one on personal names and material 

 for maps accompanying the chapters on place names has been sub- 

 mitted. Thanks are due to Dr. Edward Sapir, of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada, through Avliose kindness the detailed surveys of 

 the land oflice of British Columljia have been utilized. Other de- 

 tailed maps showing the distribution of garden beds and charts 

 illustrating the genealogies of a number of families have been pre- 

 pared. 



After the unfortunate death of Mr. Haeberlin, the work on the 

 Salish material was transferred to Miss Helen H. Roberts, who, in 

 the course of the j^ear, completed the study of the basketry of the 

 Salish Indians. A considerable amount of additional information, 

 the need for which developed during the work, was supplied by Mr. 

 James Teit, wdio, at Dr. Boas's recjuest, and following detailed 

 questions, reported on special aspects of the decorative art of the 

 Thompson Indians. This work has been carried on with the con- 

 tinued financial support of Mr. Homer E. Sargent, whose interest 

 in ethnological work in the Northwest has already furnished most 

 important material. During the year the work on the map accom- 

 panying the discussion of the distribution of the Salish tribes was 

 also completed. 



Work on the second part of the Handbook of American Indian 

 Languages also progresses. The completed sketches of the Alsea 

 language, by Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg, and that of the Paiute, by 

 Dr. Edward Sapir, were received by the end of the preceding fiscal 

 year, and the editorial work on these sketches has nearly been com- 

 pleted. These two sketches and that of the Kutenai, which has 

 partly been written, Avill complete the second volume of the Hand- 

 book. 



Dr. Walter Hough, curator of ethnology, was detailed to continue 

 archeological work in the White Mountain Apache Reserve, Arizona, 



