TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H 621 
A set of photographic prints will be presented to the Royal Anthropological 
Institute. The detailed descriptions, together with the averages and indices 
based on the numerical data, are nearly ready for publication, which will be 
undertaken as soon as possible. 
6. Ona Totem-pole from the Queen Charlotte Islands. 
By Miss B. Linpsay. 
One of the totem-poles of the Haida Indians, hitherto undescribed, was sent 
from Victoria in the year 1890, by the late Mr. Arthur More, of the Bank of 
British Columbia. The pole is a small one, carved in stone, the material being 
a hard black shale. The back of the pole is slightly hollowed. 
The five sculptured figures are of beautiful workmanship. The lowest one 
represents the Bear Totem. The next, a bird with an enormous beak, repre- 
sents the Raven Totem. The middle figure represents the conventional Beaver 
Totem; the tail is marked with a scale-like pattern of diagonal lines. The paws 
of the figure, placed on each side of the mouth, are holding a stick at which the 
animal is gnawing. The penultimate figure is human. It has no legs, but two 
paw-like hands are squeezed under the chin. The perforated nose appears as if 
drawn downwards to the level of the upper teeth. The top figure represents 
the porcupine, the quills being indicated by long depressed scratches on the 
stone. The characteristic attitude of the rodent head has been cleverly indicated 
by the sculptor. 
The measurements are approximately as follows :—Height, 174 inches; width, 
at base 3 inches, at top 2 inches; projection, of lowest figure 3 inches, of top 
figure nearly 2 inches. A small separate slab of the same stone, the outer face 
of which is rounded and polished, serves as a base for the pole. 
7. Note on the Living Representatives of the Old North-Eastern 
Asiatic Race which gave America its Indians. By Dr. AEs 
ArpuiéKa. 
8. The Establishment and First Year and a Half’s Work of the Anthro- 
pological Division of the Geological Survey of Canada. By Dr. 
GEORGE Bryce. 
The Anthropological Division of the Geological Survey was organised on 
September 1, 1910, under the direction of a regularly appointed Government 
staff consisting of Dr. E. Sapir, Mr. C. M. Barbeau, and Mr. Harlan I. Smith. 
The Department was divided into three branches: Ethnology and Philology, 
Archeology, and Physical Anthropology. As a rule the special expeditions and 
local surveys have been entrusted to paid agents not on the permanent staff. 
The following is a brief sketch of the work which has already been done :— 
Dr. Sapir has been engaged in both museum and field work. In the museum 
the accumulated material has been unpacked and sorted out according to class 
(physical, ethnological, and archeological), and according to the five Canadian 
Indian culture areas. In the field Dr. Sapir has been engaged in the investiga- 
tion of the Nootka of Vancouver Island, and in a number of preliminary surveys 
of the Indians of Ontario and Quebec. 
Mr. Barbeau was sent to work among the Hurons and Wyandots; his inves- 
tigations of their social organisation have proved fertile of results, which have, 
however, been surpassed by the results of his survey of their technology. 
Mr. H. I. Smith’s acquaintance with British Columbia, and experience in 
museum work, have been utilised in the collection and arrangement of specimens 
from that area. He has been assisted in the museum work by Dr. Wintemberg. 
Mr. V. Stefansson, who is acting as joint agent of the Natural History Museum, 
New York, and the Canadian Survey, is engaged in Arctic exploration. In 1910 
he discovered a hitherto undescribed people near Cape Bixley. 
Collections of folklore and legends of the Micmacs of eastern Canada have 
been made by Dr. C. MacMillan, who has also recorded his observations of birth, 
