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SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 



Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, completed the preparation 

 of his manuscript on the ethnology of the Kwakiutl Indians, about 

 2,700 pages of which was submitted to the bureau and assigned as 

 the accompanying paper of the Thirty-fifth Annual Report, the com- 

 position of which was commenced before the close of the fiscal year. 

 At the same time progress was made on the preparatory work for 

 the second part of the memoir. ' Under Dr. Boas's direction Miss Mil- 

 dred Downs listed the incidents of the Kwakiutl mythology prepara- 

 tory to a discussion of the subject, and necessary additional informa- 

 tion for this purpose was obtained from Mr. George Hunt, of Fort 

 Eupert, Vancouver Island. Mr. Hunt submitted in all 460 pages of 

 manuscript in response to questions, and sent botanical specimens 

 that have been identified through the kindness of Dr. N. L. Britton, 

 director of the New York Botanical Garden. 



The manuscript for Bulletin 59, Kutenai Tales, has been completed. 

 All the texts having been set up during the preceding year, the ab- 

 stracts and comparative notes, referring to the pages of the bulletin, 

 were written out (32 pages of printed matter), and a vocabulary 

 (140 pages of manuscript) based on the text was prepared. 



For the second part of the Handbook of American Indian Lan- 

 guages Dr. Frachtenberg submitted his sketch of the Alsea grammar, 

 which will be prepared for publication as soon as a sufficient number 

 of texts are available. Considerable progress has been made in the 

 preparation of the Kutenai grammar. Owing to the impossibility 

 of communicating with Mr. Bogoras in Russia, no progress has been 

 made in proof reading the Chukchee grammar, which has been in 

 type for more than three years, but which can not be completed with- 

 out submitting the proofs to the author. During the year, however, 

 Dr. Boas revised the Eskimo texts by Mr. Bogoras, for which a brief 

 ethnological introduction has been written by Dr. Ernest Hawkes. 



The results of the extended field work of Mr. James Teit, made 

 possible through the generosity of Mr. Homer E. Sargent of Chicago, 

 are nearing completion. At the present time two manuscripts are 

 well advanced. One of these, consisting of about 1,000 pages, pre- 

 pared jointly by Dr. Boas and Dr. H. K. Haeberlin, was submitted 

 in May, accompanied with a number of maps showing the distribution 

 of Salishan dialects at various periods. It consists of a discussion 

 of the characteristics of the various dialectic groups, comparative 

 vocabularies on which the deductions are based, and a few simple 

 texts. The material on which these studies are founded was collected 

 from field expeditions by Dr. Boas between 1886 and 1900, and by 

 additional material gathered by Mr. Teit between the latter date and 

 the present year. 



