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indefinitely until space is provided by the erection of a new museum. This had been the intention 

 for some time, hut owing to financial conditions the matter has been left in abeyance, but it is 

 to be hoped that the time will soon come when arrangements will be made for the erection 

 of a building large enough to house this valuable anthropological material. 



While undergoing these changes this year the Museum was visited by a number of tbe 

 leading scientists and anthropologists of America who were in Victoria during the summer, 

 among whom were: Dr. Franz Boas, Anthropologist, Columbia University, New York. U.S.A. ; 

 J. G. Bond, Curator, McMahon Museum, Quetta, Baluchistan, India ; Professor J. K. Beattie, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.; Lieut. - 

 Colonel G. T. Emmons, Princeton, N.J., U.S.A. ; Dr. Goddard, American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, U.S.A.; George Heye, Director, Museum of American Indian (Heye Founda- 

 tion), New York, U.S.A.; M. Hall McAllister, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 

 Cal., U.S.A.; Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, Smithsonian Institution, U.S. National Museum, Wash- 

 ington. D.C., UjS.A. ; Harlan I. Smith, Archaeologist, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Can. ; 

 Charles Piper Smith, Botanist, San Jose, Cal., U.S.A. 



All these gentlemen were greatly impressed by the move the Department was making in 

 displaying the anthropological material which had been secured many years ago, and were 

 surprised that we had been ahle to gather so much of valuable material in regard to the aborig- 

 inal races of this Province, material which is now in safe-keeping and will be preserved for the 

 education of the rising generation. It shows the stone age, industry, home life, customs, etc., 

 of the Indians of this North-west Coast. 



Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia University, U.S.A., while in the city had arranged to have 

 Mr. George Hunt, an Indian from the Fort Rupert Reservation, assist him on a revision of some 

 of his writings ou the Kwakiutl Indians, and as our anthropological collection was being 

 arranged at the time, advantage was taken by the Department of Mr. Hunt's visit. 



With the permission of the Deputy Provincial Secretary, the Department engaged Mr. Hunt 

 for several days to go over the Kwakiutl specimens, in order to have reliable data and informa- 

 tion at first hand for the labels on the specimens when finally arranged. Mr. Hunt, having spent 

 all his life on a reserve with his own people, knows well their early customs. He also gave us 

 the Indian names of many of the plants that are used by the Indians for food and medicine. 



Dr. C. F. Newcombe, who is noted as one of the leading anthropologists of the North-west 

 Coast, has offered to assist the Director to arrange the collection permanently during the coming 

 year. This will necessitate an immense amount of work, as all specimens will have to be 

 relabelled, and it is intended to give explanatory notes on their designs and uses by the natives, 

 only temporary labels being attached at the present time. 



The Department has been very fortunate this year in receiving collections of Indian relics 

 as gifts. Mr. Victor B. Harrison, of Nanaimo, B.C., presented a collection which comprises the 

 following : — 



Salishan (Coast). 



No. 3177. Stone pestle. No. 3187. Copper bracelet, found on skeleton 



„ 3178. Stone pestle. of a woman. 



„ 3179. Stone pestle. „ 31SS. Bone handle for stone knife. 



Salishan (Lillooct). 



No. 3183. Stone paint-dish of turtle design. 



Salishan (Thompson). 



No. 31S4. Stone* Indian pipe. No. 3189-4006. Stone arrow-heads. 



„ 3185. Bone needle. „ 4007-4020. Stone spear-heads. 



„ 318G. Stone needle. „ 4021^025. Fragments of arrow-heads. 



Salishan (Shuswap). 



No. 3180. Jade chisel. No. 4026. Whetstone. 



., 3181. Jade chisel. „ 4027. Rubbing-stone. 



„ 3182. Jade chisel. 

 In this collection, No. 3183, which is a soapstone dish, is of special interest, being a very 

 fine piece of work. 



