Clarifying his "blunder" about funds. Advises to collect vocabularies only from Salish tribes. Believes most difficult area will be Southwest Washington, area between Gray's Harbor, Puget Sound, and Columbia River. Coast Salish; Upper Chehalis; Lower Chehalis; Cowlitz; Quinault; Twana
With additional funding remaining, advises Teit to complete survey of Salish dialects by going to Puget Sound and nearby (from Lummi, south to Cowlitz, then heading west to the Pacific.) Notes some languages or dialect for whch there is some data, and others where there is a major lack of information. Coast Salish; Puget Sound; Lummi; Cowlitz; Sto:lo; Cowlitz; Puyallup; Chehalis; Quinault; Twana
Returned from trip among the Yakama. Klicktats and Tenino people also prominent at Yakima Reservation, as well as small number of Wishram, Wasco, Cowlitz, and Wentachi. All these languages spoken there. Focused on basketry design questions as instructed, but asked some other ethnological questions that seemed important.
Part of ACLS Collection, Item 59, "Annotated Maps and Notes to maps of the Pacific Northwest." Heavily concerns Willapa, plus stories from Puget Sound tribes, especially Snoqualmie and Twana.
Hand-colored and annotated map depicting tribal home areas generally. Noted on map: "Boundaries between tribes are not defined in the traditions."; Base map: "Rand McNally & Co.’s Indexed County and Railroad Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide of Oregon...." 1910.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating distributions of numerous tribes (though not specially color-coded by tribe). Annotated portion of map includes northernmost Oregon, westernmost Idaho, and southernmost British Columbia. Also noted with title on map: "Boundaries between the tribes are undefined in all the traditions."; 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 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.
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.