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Dr. Ganong has undertaken the organisation of systematic work in 

 New Brunswick, with special reference to the remnants of Indian tribes 

 in that section of the country, and a somewhat definite statement of 

 progress in this direction may be anticipated for the next report. 



The anthropometric work of the Committee has been in progress for 

 the last three years, and material is steadily accumulating which will 

 ultimately be placed in competent hands for final analysis. 



Mr. Leon G(5rin, whose very acceptable work upon the Indians of 

 Lorette was reported upon last year, has continued his studies with 

 reference to the Iroquois of Caughnawaga ; but the material is not 

 sufficiently advanced to make it available for the purposes of the present 

 report. 



Mr. A. F. Hunter has shown continuous activity in the ethnology of 

 Ontario. He has published in the ' Archaeological Report of Ontario ' for 

 1900 his third contribution to the bibliography of Ontario archaeology. 

 In volume iii. of the ' Ontario Historical Society ' he has also published 

 an article on ' The Ethnographical Elements of Ontario.' This paper was 

 prepared in the line of the investigations of this Committee, and, as in the 

 case of the contributions by Mr. Suite, it will serve as an important basis 

 for further investigations. Its importance and the fact that the place of 

 first publication would secure only a limited circulation made it desirable 

 that a certain number of extra copies should be secured by the Committee 

 for use in its special work. These are now available, and a copy is 

 transmitted herewith. 



Mr. Hill-Tout has continued his studies of the Salish tribes of British 

 Columbia. His report for this year deals chiefly with the Halkome'lem 

 tribes of the Lower Eraser. The evidence, both from his archaeological 

 investigations and from his linguistic studies, leads him to conclude that 

 these tribes are comparatively late comers in their present territory, and 

 that the original undivided home of the Salish stock was not on the shores 

 and bays or tidal rivers of this coast, each tribe or division having 

 separate and distinct names for the various kinds of fish and other marine 

 products, which could not conceivably have been the case had they lived 

 together here, since fish formed the principal portion of their food from 

 time immemorial, as their midden-heaps testify. Their stories and myths 

 accounting for the origin or presence of the salmon and other forms of 

 marine life in these waters are also widely dissimilar, plainly showing 

 that they have been independently evolved since the separation of the 

 tribe into its present divisions. 



Another important result has been reached by a comparative study of 

 the philosophy and social customs of the Salish tribes. It has been found 

 that their beliefs and customs furnish us with the steps by which the 

 peculiar totemism of the northern tribes of this coast is reached. It is 

 seen to be the natural outgrowth and development of an earlier fetishism, 

 the different cultural planes of the Salish presenting very clearly the 

 intermediate steps by which the former gave rise to the latter. 



The linguistic part of the report, to whicli the author has devoted 

 much time and study, forms a valuable addition to our knowledge of the 

 Salish tongue. It presents a comprehensive exposition of the grammatical 

 structure of two important dialects of this family, to which are added 

 examples of native text and extensive glossaries of Kwa'nthen and 

 Teil'qeuk terms. 



The Committee desire to be reappointed, with a grant of 30^., in 

 addition to the balance of ^46.15 in hand. The Committee recommend 



