Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . l-K 121.—Louis Keiioyer. tlie last of theAtfalati. various tribes of Oregon and Washington. He began the years workin the month of July with a trip to the Yakima Reservation. Wash-ington, where, with the assistance of Louis Kenoyer, he revised tlieAtfalati (Kalapuya) manuscript material which had been collectedby the late Dr. Gatschet in 1877. This material, comprising 421manuscript pages, consisted of vocables, stems, grammatical forms,and ethnological and historical narratives, obtained in the Atfalati NO. 3 SMITHSON
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . l-K 121.—Louis Keiioyer. tlie last of theAtfalati. various tribes of Oregon and Washington. He began the years workin the month of July with a trip to the Yakima Reservation. Wash-ington, where, with the assistance of Louis Kenoyer, he revised tlieAtfalati (Kalapuya) manuscript material which had been collectedby the late Dr. Gatschet in 1877. This material, comprising 421manuscript pages, consisted of vocables, stems, grammatical forms,and ethnological and historical narratives, obtained in the Atfalati NO. 3 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I915 99 dialect. The revision of this material marked the completion of thework on the Calapooya (Kalapuya) languages which Dr. Frachten-berg- began during- the previous summer. It may not be out of placehere to mention the fact that Louis Kenoyer is the last survivingmember of the Atfalati (or \\apato Lake) tribe of the Kalapuyafamily. During the latter part of August Dr. Frachtenberg attended the. Fig. 122.—Thomas Payne, the presentnominal Chief of the Quileute. tirst Indian Fair, which was held at Siletz, Oregon, by the variousIndian tribes living at that agency. During this trip 52 Athapascanand Shastan songs were collected. In the month of November Dr. Frachtenberg commenced hisethnological researches of the Chimakuan family. Lp to the presentwriting a preliminary survey of the morphological and syntacticstructure of the Quileute language had been made, and 30 nativemvths and tales were collected. lOO SMITHSONIAN MISCELLAXIiOLS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66 The Chimakuan famil}- was originally composed of three distincttrihes living in the northwestern part of Washington. These tribeswere the Cheniakuni. Quileute, and Hoh. The Chemakum tribe hasdisappeared entirely ; while the Onileute and Hoh tribes are repre-sented by approximately 350 individuals living at the Lapnsh Agency,in Clallam Countv, Washington.
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