THE Puyallup-Nasqually, who are the subject of Miss Smith's ethnographic study, are coast Salish of southern Puget Sound in the State of Washington on the north-west coast of America. Their habitat affords a striking example of the manner in which the geographical factor inay enter into and condition social, political and economic development. The section of low land known as the Puget Sound area is one great watershed honeycombed by creeks and rivers, of which the Puyallup and Nasqually are two whose banks were formerly occupied by the people here under investigation.