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Miss Alice Turner, Victoria, B.C., presented the Department with some very beautiful work 

 done by the Blackfeet Indians, consisting of : — 

 No. 316S. Chief's coat, deer-skin. 



„ 3169. Pair of chaps, deer-skin, beaded design. 



„ 3170. Large leather belt, buffalo-hide. 



„ 3171. Pair of leather leggings, beaded design. 

 . „ 3172. Pair of leather leggings, beaded design. 



„ 3173. Leather belt, beaded design. 



„ 3174. Leather belt, beaded design. 



,, 3175. Pair of leather moccasins, beaded design. 



„ 3176. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone and stem of alder. 



„ 4028. Pair of leather moccasins, beaded design. 



„ 4029. Pair of leather moccasins, beaded design. 



,, 4030. Pair of wristlets, beaded design. 



,, 4031. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone and stem of wood, with beads. 



., 4032. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone and stem of wood. 



„ 4033. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone and stem of wood. 



,, 4034. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone with a hand on it. Stem of three-cornered wood with 

 two red knobs. 



„ 4035. Peace-pipe, bowl of stone and stem of wood. 



„ 4036. Bowl of peace-pipe. 



„ 4037. Bowl of peace-pipe. 



., 4038. Bowl of peace-pipe, carved. 



„ 4039. Bowl of peace-pipe, stone, carved in the shape of an animal. 

 Mr. Harlan I. Smith, Archaeologist, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, very kindly sent 

 to the Museum eight casts of prehistoric petroglyphs, or pictures on rocks near Bella Coola, B.C., 

 with the following note : — 



Casts of Prehistoric Petroglyphs, or Pictures on Rocks, near Bella Coola, B.C. 



There are many of these pictures on top of the western edge of the canyon of the creek 

 that empties into Bella Coola River some 3 miles above its mouth. They are at the top of the 

 rise in the creek-valley immediately above the Bella Coola bottom lands, or about a mile from 

 the river. The canyon is here about 70 feet deep. The pictures are on felsite rock, which is 

 hard when freshly broken, but is decomposing into clay and is very soft where weathered. 

 One petroglyph near by is on a granitic rock. Most of them were made by pecking, a very 

 few by incising. 



They must be ancient, as the moss with which they were overgrown in places reached a 

 thickness of about a foot and some were covered by the roots of trees. Besides, only a few 

 Indians knew of their existence and they only of the large southern group. They had never 

 seen or heard of the several other exposures from which the casts here shown were made. 

 They say that a family had " power " under a large rock near by. They pecked out the pictures 

 in time to songs which were sung in connection with this "power."' Not even the oldest Indians 

 know what any of the pictures represent. This family had a ceremonial house immediately south 

 of the largest exposure, and the hunting-trail up the valley passed over part of the petroglyphs 

 and through the house. 



Exploration and moulding Cat. Nos. XII-B-1492c (1), XII-B-149Sc (7). XII-B-1497c 



by Harlan I. Smith, 1921. (6), XII-B-1493c (2). XII-P,-1495c (4). XII-B-1496c 



Casting by Edward Perron. (5), XII-B-1494c (3), XII-B-1499c (S). 



Coloring by Claude E. Johnson. 



ACCESSIONS. 



Long-eared Owl {Asio icilsonianus). Presented by Mr. W. Long. Victoria. B.C.. January 

 24th, 1922. 



American Coot (Fulica americama). Presented by Dr. White. Elk Lake, B.C., February 

 2nd. 1922. 



American Crossbill (Loxia Cttrviostra minor). Presented by Mr. Dennis Ashby. Duncan, 

 B.C., February 6th, 1922. 



