46 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. 
dently quite highly developed, both nets and harpoons having been 
in use, but the whale was not hunted, although the flesh of stranded 
whales 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 Amiual Eeport, Contin- 
ued correspondence with Mr. George Hunt, of Fort Rupert, Van- 
couver Island, has 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 place 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 whose Idndness the detailed surveys of 
the land office of British Columbia 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 year, 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, who, at Dr. Boas's request, 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, will complete the second volume of the Hand' 
book. 
Dr. Walter Hough, curator of ethnolog}', was detailed to continue 
archeological work in the White Mountain Apache Reserve, Arizona, 
