•522 REPORT— 1895. 



Tlie North-Western Tribes of Canada. — Tenth Report of the Com- 

 mittee, consisting of Dr. E. B. Tylor, Dr. G. M. Dawson, Mr. 

 K. G. Haliburton, and Mr. H. Hale, appointed to investigate the 

 Physical Characters, Languages, and Industrial and Social 

 Conditions of the North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada. 



[PLATE VII.] 

 Contents. 



Page 

 Fifth Hejjort on the Indians of British Columbia. By Fkanz Boas. 



I. Physical Characteristics of tlie Triles of the North Pacifc Coast . . 524 



II. The Tinneh Tribe of Nicola Valley 5.51 



III. The Tinneh Tribe of Portland Inlet, the Ts'Ets'a'ut 555 



IV. The Nass River Indians, the Ntsh-a' 509 



V. Li ngiii sties : 



i. Msk-a.' 583 



2. Ts'Ets'd'ut 587 



The Committee, as was expected last year, are now able to complete their 

 work for the present by sending in the final report, by Dr. Franz Boas, 

 on ' The Indians of British Columbia.' 



In concluding the investigations which have since the Montreal Meet- 

 ing of 1884 been carried on under their direction, the Committee desire 

 to return thanks for the liberality with which the British Association 

 took up the task of preserving records of the Anthropology of the North - 

 Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada. With equal generosity, the 

 Canadian Government recognised the necessity of the work by large con- 

 tribution to the funds at the disposal of the Committee. Thus has been 

 brought together a collection of valuable physical and philological in- 

 formation, coupled with accounts of native culture, much of which would 

 probably have changed or disappeared within a few years had not this 

 timely enterprise been undertaken. 



For convenience of reference, the principal contributions embodied in 

 the Committee's series of Reports are here set dovm, viz. : — 



Circular of Inquiry drawn up by Committee. (Report III.) 



Report on the Blackfoot Tribes, by Mr. Horatio Hale, in correspon- 

 dence with Father Lacombe and Rev. John McLean. (Report I.) 



Report on the Blackfoot Tribes, by Rev. Edward F. Wilson, and Notes 

 by Mr. Hale. (Report III.) 



Notes on Indians of British Columbia, by Dr. Franz Boas. (Report 



Report on the Sarcee Indians, by Rev. Edward F. Wilson, and Notes 

 by Mr. Hale. (Report IV.) 



Remarks on North American Ethnology, by Mr. Hale. (Report Y.) 



First Report on the Indians of British Columbia, by Dr. Franz Boas. 

 (Report V.) 



Remarks on the Ethnology of British Columbia, by Mr. Hale. (Re- 

 port VI.) 



Second Report on the Indians of British Columbia, by Dr. Franz 

 Boas. (Report VI.) 



Introduction, by Sir Daniel Wilson. (Report VII.) 



