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REPORT — 1898. 



31 ; Northern Oregon, physical cha- 

 racteristics, vii. 26 ; Southern Oregon, 

 physical characteristics, vii. 28. 

 Tribes nf Lower Eraser River, ix. 1 : cur- 

 rent beliefs, ix. 11 ; death, ix. 5; fi.-<h- 

 ing, ix. 7 ; genealosjies, ix. table 1 ; 

 hunting, \x.7; marriage, ix. 4; my- 

 thol"gy, ix. 9 ; physical characteristics, 

 vii. 22, X. table 6 ; religion, ix. '.) ; 

 shamanism, ix. ; social organisation, 



ix. .S. 



Ts'Els'a'ut : Birth, s. 45 ; clothing, x. BD ; 

 death, X. 46; games, x. 47; histoiy, 

 X. :t."): houses, X. 40; hunting, x. 41; 

 linguistics, x. 66; location, x. ?,i ; 

 nianiage, x. 45; maturity, x. 45; 

 mu.sic, X. 46 ; mythology, x. 47 ; orna- 

 mentation, X. 43 ; physical character- 

 istics, x. table 1 ; religion, x. 4t) ; 

 shamanism, x. 45 ; social organisation, 

 s. 44 ; villages, x.39. 



Tsimshian: Birth, v. 40; death, v. 41; 

 houses, V. 22, xi. 12 ; linguistics, v. 81 ; 

 marriage, v. 40 ; maturity, v. 40 ; my- 

 thology, iv. 7; physicalcharacteristics, 

 V. 3 2, 15, vii. 20, xii. table; religion, 



V. 49 ; secret societies, v. 56 ; shaman- 

 ism, V. 58 ; social organisation, v. 23, 

 24, 27 ; worship and prayers, iv. 9. 



Twins : Omens relative to birth, Xootka, 

 vi. 39; Songisli,vi. 22. 



Village of Ts'Ets'a'ut, x. 39. 



Vocabulary of Chilcotin, xii. 37. 



comparative, x. 68 ; languages 



spoken in British Columbia, vi. 140. 



War of Shuswap, vi. 80. 



Wars : Bilqula. vii. 15 ; Indians of British 



Columbia, v. 39. 

 Washington : Physical characteristics of 



tribes of coast, vii. table 6. 

 WiLSOX (E. F.), Report by, on Sarcees, 



iv. 10-21. 

 Wilson (Sir Daniel), Introduction by, to 



Report of Committee, vii. 1. 

 Words in language of Tinneh of Xicola 



Valley, x. 33, xii. 38. 

 Worship and prayers, Haida, iv. 9 ; 



Kootenay, iv. 10 ; Kwakiutl, iv. 9 ; 



Salish, iv. 10; Tlingit, iv. 9; Tsim- 

 shian, iv. 9. 



Torres Straits Anthropological Expedition. — Interim Report of the 

 Committee, consisting of Sir "\V. TuRNER {Chairman), Professor A. 

 C. Haddox (Secretavjj), Professor M. Foster, Dr. J. Scott- 

 Keltie, Professor L. C. Miall and Professor Marshall "Ward, 

 appointed to investigate the Anthropology and Natural History of 

 Torres Straits. 



The party, consisting of Drs. Haddon, Rivers, MacDougall, and Myers, 

 and Messrs. Ray and Wilkin, left London in the ' Duke of "Westminster ' 

 on March 10, and arrived at Thursday I.sland on April 22, where Dr. 

 Seli"mann joined the expedition. Dr. Haddon adds :— After various 

 delays, Murray Island was reached on May 6 ; here we occupied a dis- 

 used Mission House. The whole party .stayed in Murray Island for a 

 fortnight, and a number of anthropological and psychological otser- 

 vations were made. As the Rev. J . Chalmers sent the ' Olive Branch ' 

 to takp on those who wished to proceed to Port Moresby, Mr. Ray, Dr. 

 Selio'mann, Mr. Wilkin, and myself took this opportunity of crossing to 

 the mainland. Delena was reached on May 27, and Port Moresby on 

 May :')1. In the absence of the Governor, Sir William Macgregor, Mr. 

 Mus^rave " ave us every assistance, and the ' Peuleule,' a small Govern- 

 ment schooner, was put at our disposal for a fortnight. Short visits were 

 paid to Kaile, Kappakappa, &c., and a stay of nearly a fortnight was 

 made at Hula. Tln^ annual dance at the neighbouring village of Babaka 

 was witnessed and photographed. This is evidently a fertility dance for 

 the gardens, and probably also for the girls. It is similar to the famous 

 annual dance at Kalo, which is about three and a half miles distant. At 

 Kerepunu we saw and photographed canoes being hollowed out with stone 

 adzes. We have photographed several processe.s, such as tattooing, fire 

 making, pile driving, pottery manufacture, etc. After our return to Port 



