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Miss Alice Turner, Victoria, B.C., presented the Department with some very beautiful work 
done by the Blackfeet Indians, consisting of :— 
No. 3168. Chief's coat, deer-skin. 
, 3169. Pair of chaps, deer-skin, beaded design. 
» 3170. Large leather belt, buffalo-hide. 
,» 3171. Pair of leather leggings, beaded design. 
, 3172. Pair of leather leggings, beaded design. 
,» 3173. Leather belt, beaded design. 
, 3174. Leather belt, beaded design. 
» 93175. Pair of leather moceasins, beaded design. 
,, 93176. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone and stem of alder. 
., 4028. Pair of leather moccasins, beaded design. 
, 4029. Pair of leather moccasins, beaded design. 
,» 4030. Pair of wristlets, beaded design. 
.. 4031. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone and stem of wood, with beads. 
4032. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone and stem of wood. 
, 4033. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone and stem of wood. 
.. 4034. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone with a hand on it. Stem of three-cornered wood with 
two red knobs. 
, 4035. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone and stem of wood. 
, 4036. Bowl of peace-pipe. 
» 40387. Bowl of peace-pipe. 
4038. Bow] of peace-pipe, carved. 
., 4039. Bowl of peace-pipe, stone, carved in the shape of an animal. 
Mr. Harlan I. Smith, Archeologist, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, very kindly sent 
to the Museum eight casts of prehistoric petroglyphs, or pictures on rocks near Bella Coola, B.C., 
with the following note :— 
Casts of Prehistoric Petroglyphs, or Pictures on Rocks, near Bella Coola, B.C. 
There are many of these pictures on top of the western edge of the canyon of the creek 
that empties into Bella Coola River some 3 miles above its mouth. They are at the top of the 
rise in the ereek-valley immediately above the Bella Coola bottom lands, or about a mile from 
the river. The canyon is here about 70 feet deep. The pictures are on felsite rock, which is 
hard when freshly broken, but is decomposing into clay and is very soft where weathered. 
One petroglyph near by is on a granitic rock. Most of them were made by pecking, a very 
few by incising. ‘ 
They must be ancient, as the moss with which they were overgrown in places reached a 
thickness of about a foot and some were covered by the roots of trees. Besides, only a few 
Indians knew of their existence and they only of the large southern group. They had never 
seen or heard of the several other exposures from which the casts here shown were made. 
They say that a family had “ power” under a large rock near by. They pecked out the pictures 
in time to songs which were sung in connection with this “ power.’ Not even the oldest Indians 
know what any of the pictures represent. This family had a ceremonial house immediately south 
of the largest exposure,.and the hunting-trail up the valley passed over part of the petroglyphs 
and through the house. 
Exploration and moulding Cat. Nos. XII-B-1492e (1), XII-B-1498e (7), XII-B-1497e 
by Harlan I. Smith, 1921. (6), XII-B-1498e (2), XII-B-1495e (4), XII-B-1496e 
Casting by Edward Perron. (5), XII-B-1494e (3), NII-B-1499e (S). 
Coloring by Claude E. Johnson. 
ACCESSIONS. 
Long-eared Owl (Asio wilsonianus). Presented by Mr. W. Long, Victoria, B.C., January 
24th, 1922. 
American Coot (Fulica americana). Presented by Dr, White, Elk Lake, B.C., February 
2nd, 1922. 
American Crossbill (Loxia curviostra minor). Presented by Mr. Dennis Ashby, Duncan, 
B.C., February 6th, 1922. F 

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