Pages 3-7 of this letter were removed and intermixed with other Teit manuscripts that became item 61, "Salish ethnographic materials," in the ACLS Collection, also at the APS Library. This separation of the pages mosly likely occurred at the time that Boas's student, Lucy Kramer, was going through Teit's manuscripts after he died, noting topical categories in some of his manuscripts and correspondence, and reordering them. The marginalia notes on the pages are hers. Pages 3-7 remain in item 61 of the ACLS collection to retain their context there, but are digitally re-associated here to reconstruct the full original letter. The coloration differences are a result of the different storage conditions of the pages siince the 1930s or 1940s.
Annotation by Teit: "This map shows the boundaries of the Shuswap, Thompson, Nicola Tinne & Okanagon more correctly than the one I sent with first report on the Thompson Indians part IV vol II." Map also signed "JAT".; Base map: "Map of the Province of British Columbia. Compiled and drawn by Edward Mohun, C.E., by direction of the Honorable W. Smythe, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, Victoria, B.C. 1884." Engraved and printed, J. Bartholomew, Edinburgh. Dawson Brothers, Montreal.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating distribution of [as spelled] Northern group (Thompson), Central or Okanagon group (Okanagon, Lake, Colville, Sans Poil), Eastern or Flathead group (Kalispel, Spokane), Columbia, Coeur d’Alene, Sahaptin tribes, Cayuse about 1850, Cayuse claimed by some about 1860 or earlier to be old boundaries of Cayuse, Kootenay, territory claimed by some Spokane, and approx. boundaries of Spokane divisions. Annotated portions of map also include westernmost Idaho and southernmost British Columbia.; Base map: “Rand McNally & Co.’s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide of Washington...." (c) 1910. Scale 15 miles = 1 inch.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating regions of tribal languages. Also delineated on map is "Approximate northern limits of Snake war parties. see map (8)." [On map, the map number was originally given as Map (7), and the title had originally given the date "about 1790 (and earlier)"; but these were crossed out and the cited data were substituted.]; Base map: “Cram’s Indexed County Map and Shipper’s Guide of Washington.” Geo. F. Cram, Chicago. No date.
Hand-colored and annotated map depicting the tribal and linguistic regions of numerous tribes. [On the map, the map number was originally given as Map (3), but was crossed out.]; Base map: “Rand, McNally & Co.’s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide of Washington...." 1909.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating tribal regions in southern Alberta, southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, and western Wyoming.; Base map: “Rand-McNally Commercial Map of the Western States.” (c) 1915. Scale approx. 60 miles = 1 inch.
Hand-colored and annotated map, signed "JATeit. 1913." Title is further annotated: "from Salish (various tribes) and Kootenay information".; Base map: “Rand McNally & Co.’s Commercial Map of the Western States.” 1909.
Part of ACLS Collection, Item 59, "Annotated Maps and Notes to maps of the Pacific Northwest." These notes accompany 15 maps hand-annotated by James Teit, showing territories and language ranges in multiple period of Indigenous peoples primarily of the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating distribution of [as spelled] Salishan, Kitunahan, Athapascan family, Algonquian family, Shoshonean, Siouan. Trade routes delineated in red. Annotated map area encompasses Alberta and Saskatchewan, plus western Manitoba, southernmost North West Territories/Yukon, and northern portions of Montana, Idaho, and Washington.; Base map: “Rand-McNally New Pocket Map of Western Canada Showing Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.” (c) 1906. Scale 60 miles = 1 inch.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating with hachures as well as by colors, “Columbia tribes or group,” “Central or Okangon group of tribes,” “Salish proper or Flathead group of tribes,” “Cour d’Alene” [names as written]. Notations on map: “Map showing early positions and approximate boundaries of tribes in portions of British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Wyoming. On the whole immediately (prior to the introduction of the horse, the North Western movements of Shahaptian, and Shoshonean bands in Washington and Oregon, the southern movements of the Blackfoot tribes, and the western movements of the Siouan tribes.” “Possibly on the whole circa 1700 A.D. for many of the tribes.” Specific tribes denoted [as spelled]: Salishan (comprising Lillooet, Thompson, Shuswap), Athapaskan, Chinookan, Kalapooian, Waiilatpuan, Lutuamian, Shoshonean, Shahaptian, Kitunahan, Algonquian, Siouan.; Base map: “Rand McNally & Co.’s Commercial Map of the Western States.” (c) 1908. 1910 printing.