Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . xts and traditions that werecollected by him in 1910 and 1913. On that day he proceeded to theOuileute reservation,- situated at Lapush, in the northwestern partof Washington, wlth a view of making- an exhaustive study of theethnology of the Ouileute Indians who, with the now- extinct Chima-kum, form the so-called Chimakuan linguistic family. This workwas carried on during August, September, October, Xoveml)er, andDecember. The most voluminous data were obtained, and the inves-tigation was facilitated by the fact that
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . xts and traditions that werecollected by him in 1910 and 1913. On that day he proceeded to theOuileute reservation,- situated at Lapush, in the northwestern partof Washington, wlth a view of making- an exhaustive study of theethnology of the Ouileute Indians who, with the now- extinct Chima-kum, form the so-called Chimakuan linguistic family. This workwas carried on during August, September, October, Xoveml)er, andDecember. The most voluminous data were obtained, and the inves-tigation was facilitated by the fact that the Ouileute Indians, num-bering ap])roximately 300 individuals, live together in a singlevillage and still cling tenaciously to their native language, and totheir former customs and traditions. Consequently, Dr. Frachten-berg encountered little difficulty in collecting exhaustive data onthe various phases of the ethnology of these Indians, and he succeededin thoroughly investigating the following phases: Early History 8 1 12 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66. Fig. 1x6.—View of the Quileute Reservation at Lapush, by L. J. Frachtenberg.
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