ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 569 
The North-Western Tribes of Canada.—Lleventh Report of the Com- 
mittee, consisting of Professor E. B. TyLor (Chairman), Mr. 
Curueert EK, PrEk (Secretary), Dr. G. M. Dawson, Ri. th. Gr. 
Hauisurron, and Mr. Horatio Hats, appointed to investigate the 
Physical Characters, Languages, and Industrial and Social Condi- 
tions of the North-Western Uribes of the Dominion of Canada. 
Tur Committee were originally appointed at the Montreal Meeting of the 
Association in 1884, and, as indicated in the Tenth Report, presented last 
year at the Ipswich Meeting, it had been determined that that Report 
should conclude the series. When, however, it was decided to hold the 
meeting for 1897 in Toronto, it appeared to be appropriate that the work 
of the Committee begun at the first Canadian Meeting should be con- 
cluded at the second, and the Committee were accordingly continued. 
The concluding Report of the Committee to be prepared for the Toronto 
Meeting may afford the occasion of pointing out to the Government and 
public of Canada the necessity for further and systematic investigation of 
the ethnology of the country. 
The Report presented herewith contains a number of observations by 
Dr. Franz Boas, through whose agency the greater part of the work has 
been done, chiefly supplementary to articles contained in the Fifht and 
Tenth Reports. Although the result of previous journeys by Dr. Boas, 
these have not been heretofore published. 
It is now hoped to include in the final Report of 1897 the results of 
further field work in contemplation and to be directed toward the filling 
of some gaps still existing in our general knowledge of the tribes of 
British Columbia, particularly in respect to the anthropometric observa- 
tions, which, in Dr. Boas’ hands, have already yielded results of so much 
interest. 
Sixth Report on the Indians of British Columbia. By Franz Boas. 
The following pages contain notes that were collected by me on pre- 
vious journeys to the North Pacific coast. They supplement mainly the 
data on the Kwakiutl Indians, given in the Fifth Report of the Com- 
mittee, and those on the Nass River Indians in the Tenth Report of the 
Committee. 
There still remain two important gaps in our general knowledge of 
the ethnology of the North Pacific coast. In order to fill these, further 
anthropometric investigations on the Haida and Héiltsuk- and ethno- 
logical and linguistic researches among the Hé'iltsuk- would be required, 
When these have been added to the data gathered heretofore, it will be 
possible to give a fairly satisfactory general outline of the anthropology of 
British Columbia. 
I. Nores oN THE KWAKIUTL. 
The Kwakiutl tribes speaking the Kwakiutl dialect call themselves 
by the general name of Kwa'kwakyewak*. The following notes refer to 
this group, more particularly to the tribes living at Fort Rupert. 
