Manuscript consists of three separate word lists. The first is in Nooksack and English (2 p.). The second is a comparative word list in languages and dialects ordered roughly in their geographic location starting from south to north. They are identified in the manuscript as Puyallup (or "sXúƛ'babš" which may be Homamish), Snoqualmie, Suquamish (not Squamish), Swinomish, Nookechamps (a Skagit division), Sauk (may be Sooke), Lummi, Samish, Nooksack, Muskokwim (probably Musqueam), Katzie, and Chilliwack (or Halkomelem). (6 p.) The third item is an English-Swimomish-Samish comparative list. (2 p.) Varying notes on identifications given by researchers are provided at the end. (2 p.); ACLS collection, item S.8
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.
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 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.
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.