Sending notebooks "full of suffixes"; linguistics; notes on Charles Hill-Tout paper ("Chapter IV"); materials used for clothing; shells; dentalia; quills. Nlaka'pamux, Secwepemc; Thompson; Shuswap
Traditional stories; historical stories; migration story; vocabulary; list of stories with detailed summaries and language terms. St'at'imc; Lilloeet; Nlaka'pamux; Uta'mqt; Upper Thompson
Recently forwarded vocabularies and map of Eastern Washington. (See previous letter.) Recently saw Father Lejeune who mentioned a burial site laid bare by a landslide. Brief notes on Secwepemc territories from Shuswap Lake down along Thompson River. Relays information from an Nlaka'pamux woman at Spences Bridge regarding Boas's question about counting of stitches and method of basket design. Secwepemc; Nlaka'pamux; Shuswap; Thompson
Received money. Will undertake thorough trip investigating tribes of Eastern Washington. Will likely bring along an Nlaka'pamux-Syilx man to assist with dialects. Provides detailed plan for trip. Has not been to the area, but feels comfortable given similarities to Interior peoples in BC. Feels out of place among coastal peoples. Wishes to first interview a man in Nicola who says that there is a band of Indians in central Washington that speaks a dialect more closely related to Thompson than Okanagan. Provides extra related details. Southern Interior Salish; Nlaka'pamux; Thompson; Okanagan; Syilx
