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The Provincial Museum wishes to extend grateful thanks to the following gentlemen who 
have greatly assisted with identifications in their respective branches of biology :— 
Identification of Birds and Mammats.—The Biological Survey, United States National 
Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Mr. Henshaw, Chief of the Biological 
Survey; also Mr. H. C. Oberholser and others. 
Identification of Entomological Specimens.—The Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D.C. 
(L, O. Howard. Chief); Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod, of Calgary; Doctors Barnes and McDunnough, 
of Deeator, Ill.; Mr. L. W. Swett, Boston, Mass.; and Mr. E. H. Blackmore, Victoria. 
The thanks of the Department are also due to Professor John Macoun, Naturalist of the 
Geological Survey, Ottawa, who is now a resident of Sidney, B.C.; Mr. J. M. Macoun, C.M.G., 
Curator of the Herbarium, Ottawa; C. F. Newcombe, M.D., Victoria, B.C.; Mr. Lawrence M. 
Lambe, Palwontologist. Ottawa: Dr. Merriam; Dr. Ralph Arnold, well-known geologist of 
Berkeley, California; and Mr. B. L. Clark, of the University of California. Also to the following 
for notes on bird migrations and for specimens presented to the Museum; J. E. Kelso, M.D.; 
W. B. Johnson and others at Edgewood, Lower Arrow Lakes; W. R. Carter, Deputy Game 
Warden, Alberni; W. A. Newcombe, Victoria. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
ACCESSIONS, 1916. 
Tsimshian. 
The following were purchased from Chief Aksidar, Kincolith :— 
Stone mortar (2882). <A large specimen; formerly used for pounding the native tobacco. 
Shaman’s head-dress of grizzly-bear claws (2883). 
Cellular lava (2884-2885). Used at dances. 
Cannibal dancer’s head-rings (3) of cedar bark (2SS6-28S87-2888) . 
Cannibal daneer’s neck-ring (2889). 
Basket, spruce-root (2898). From Kispiox, Skeena River. Presented by Lieutenant G. T. 

Emmons, U.S.A. > c 
Mirror, stone (2899). From Hoquelget, Bulkley River, a village site helonging to the 
Tsimshian Hazelton band. but occupied by the Hoquelgets, an Athabascan band (2900). 
Mask, copper, representing a human face. Used in winter dances. From Kispiox, Skeena 
River. From Lieutenant G. T. Emmons, U.S.A., in exchange. 
Salishan of the Coast. 
Pictograph (2874). Cast of an Indian carving on the surface of an outcrop of sandstone 
near Chase River, Nanaimo, B.C. From a mould made by Harlan I. Smith for the 
Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1898, and illustrated in his * Archeology of the Gulf 
of Georgia.’ Vol. IV., Mem. Amer. Mus. of Nat. Hist. In exchange from Geological 
Survey of Canada. 
Arrow-head of chipped stone (2897). From dry bed of ancient lake, Gonzales Farm, 
Victoria, B.C. Presented by W. B. Anderson. 
Mat of coloured wool (2903). Shows designs used in the old ceremonial blankets. Purchased 
from Mrs. W. Charles. 
Salishan Interior—Lillocet. 
Nephrite boulder (2890). Slices have been sawed off it of which to make stone chisels, 
ete. From Seton Lake. Presented by lL. Keary. 
Hammer, stone (2883). Seton Lake. Presented by L. Keary. 
Ilammer, stone (2894). Seton Lake. Presented by J. P. Babcock. 
Pile-driver. stone, two-handed (2891). Seton Lake; probably used for driving piles when 
setting up fish-weirs. Presented by L. Keary. 
’ Pile-drivers (2), stone, two-handed (2895-2896). North shore, Seton Lake. Presented by 
W. R. Bellamy. i 
Hawimer, stone (2892). Purchased at Indian village, Lillooet. 
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