1. The relationship of Klamath to Nez Perce and Northern Sahaptin appears to have been more often assumed than demonstrated. Gatschet, in discussing the linguistic affinities of Klamath, cited eighteen resemblant lexical pairs, and noted that "the Sahaptin and Wayiletpu families are the only ones with whom a distant kinship is not altogether out of the question."' Sapir classified both Sahaptin and Lutuami (Klamath-Modoc) under Plateau Penutian.2 Jacobs accepted the inclusion of Lutuamian and Sahaptian in one family.3 Velten noted the relationship between the North Sahaptin-Nez Perce family and the Klamath and Molale groups to be no less apparent, though decidedly more remote, than the affinity between Nez Perce and Northern Sahaptin.4 The purpose of this paper is to note some lexical resemblances between Klamath and Northern Sahaptin or Nez Perce. The source for Klamath is an unpublished dictionary and grammar by Phillip R. Barker, Survey of California Indian Languages, Department of Linguistics, Univer-