Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. F 33 



Ar , Chicken Creek, near 40-Mile (190b , bequeathed 



ALammoth-tusk - i_ ■»*- « i ^ 1 



Ar ,, , , , ,. ... bv Airs. L. A. (Joulson. 



Jklammoth-tusk (portion ot) | 



Killdeer Plover, Alherni, B.C. Presented by Deputy Game Warden Carter. 

 Accessions, 1913. (Omitted from 1913 Report.) 



Kelp, with parasitic growth. Presented by W. H. Ellis, Victoria. 

 Musk-rat. Kermode and Anderson, Atlin, B.C. 



(Albino). Presented by W. Vanvolkenberg, Atlin, B.C. 



1 Sockeye Salmon \ 



2 Banded Sailor Fish [presented bv M. McTavish, Rivers Inlet, B.C. 

 Diseased growth on salmon " 



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AXTHROPOLOGY. 

 Report of C. F. Xewcombe, M.D., for 1914. 



Victoria, B.C., December 31st, 191-4. 



F. Kermode, Esq., 



Director, Provincial Museum, Victoria. 



Sir, — Owing to various causes the strictest economy has been exercised in curtailing the 

 expenditure of the appropriation voted for the year 1914 for the purchase of anthropological 

 specimens for the Provincial Museum. 



Therefore only one field expedition was made, from May 14th to May 28th. This was to 

 the Kwakiutl region near Alert Bay, Fort Rupert, and Blunden Harbour. It was successful 

 in acquiring a series of ceremonial objects relating to the important cannibal winter dance of 

 these people, and in filling up some of the blanks in the series illustrating their every-day life. 



A few specimens have been acquired by correspondence, and some have been presented 

 by various donors whose names will be found in the appended list of accessions for the current 

 year. 



Acknowledgment should also be made of the attempt of the Women's Canadian Club of 

 Victoria to purchase and present to the Museum a totem-pole from Rivers Inlet. After 

 agreeing to sell this pole at a certain price the native owner changed his mind, and the 

 negotiation came to an end through no fault of the would-be donors or of the gentleman who 

 acted as their agent. The totem-pole referred to would have been a valuable addition to the 

 Museum, as Rivers Inlet is not represented in our collection. From other Kwakiutl villages, 

 however, we have no less than eight of these poles ; so that, as a whole, this tribe has had 

 justice done to it. 



An annotated list of specimens collected during the year 1914 is appended hereto. 



I have, etc., 



C. F. Newcombe, M.D. 



