Description of artifacts for museum; construction of railroad to Nicola Lake; kekule houses; stone mortars. Nlaka'pamux; Sto:lo; Secwepemc; St'at'imc; Thompson; Shuswap; Lillooet
Will undertake the linguistic work on Thompson, beginning by writing down traditions and vocabulary. Will attempt to answer grammatical questions. Already has word lists for Lillooet, Shuswap, and Okanagan from past visits. Has list of Thompson personal and place names, and a smaller one for Shuswap. Also notes on Similkameen and Okanagan Lake people. Also Lower Fraser notes and specimens. Thompson; Nlaka'pamux; Lillooet; St'at'imc; Shuswap; Secwepemc; Okanagon; Syilx; Sto:lo
Commentary on Charles Hill-Tout paper on the Lillooet (St'at'imc) with observations and corrections. Funerary shaman practices, salmon ceremonies, hot spring for medicinal purposes, types of names, vocabulary, personal crests, linguistics. St'at'imc; Lillooet; Sto:lo; Coast Salish; Interior Salish; Nlaka'pamux; Thompson; Okanagan; Syilx
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
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.
