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in the scientific monographs to be prepared by its various officers. Pre- 
liminary statements are given below, and more extended accounts of two 
parties will be found at the conclusion of this report. 
Hr. D. Jenness spent the summer in Bering strait, where he excavated 
some of the ancient ruins in order to determine their relation to similar 
ruins in Arctic Canada, and thereby throw light on the early history and 
migrations of the Canadian Eskimos. He also studied several Eskimo dialects 
in that region for comparison with the dialects spoken in the Canadian 
Arctic. 
H. I. Smith left in May for Ritwanga, on Skeena river, B.C., to 
continue direction of the interdepartmental work on the conservation 
of totem-poles along the line of the Canadian National railways. During 
such leisure as he could obtain from this work he investigated the archaeology 
and material culture of the Gitksan and Carrier Indians of the neighbour- 
hood, returning to Ottawa in October. 
C. M. Barbeau was engaged in field work among the Tsimshian of 
Skeena river from June until the end of September. He obtained full 
records of the social organization, territories, privileges, and traditions 
of three tribes, the Gilarhdzauks and Gitrhtzaih of Gitsalas, and the 
Gitsemgalem. Studies were made also of the territories, and the traditions 
of war and migrations, of three other tribes, the Gitsees, the Gitwilgyauts, 
and Gitzarhlehl, whose culture in other respects had been investigated 
previously. The two ancient village sites of Gilarhdzauks and Gitrhtsaih, 
at the canyon, were explored and partly cleared for the eventual restoration 
of their totem-poles and large communal houses. This year’s investigation 
practically completes the ethnographic study of the Tsimshian proper 
and of the Gitksan on the Skeena, which was begun in 1915 and continued 
subsequently in the course of five explorations. Full reports will be pre- 
pared and published on the social organization, the traditions, the arts, 
and the language of these tribes. 
Mr. Barbeau also completed or revised, in the course of a short trip, 
the information already obtained on the totem-poles of the Gitksan on 
the upper Skeena. A report on the totem-poles of the Tsimshian is being 
written. 
W. J. Wintemberg between June 18 and September 14 made an 
intensive exploration of the pre-European palisaded Tionontati village 
site, on the farms of W. F. Sidey and J. A. Mackay, lot 8, con. V, Notta- 
wasaga tp., Simcoe co., Ontario. The site is situated on the more or 
less level top of a hill about 40 feet high. The vegetal products found 
in the refuse heaps of the site consisted of carbonized corn (cobs and 
kernels), beans, sunflower seeds, squash stems, and plum pits. A few 
points for arrows chipped from chert were found. All but one are of the 
triangular type. Some of the points are thin and delicate, and none 
exceeds If inches in length. An unusual type of bilaterally barbed point 
for a harpoon was unearthed, also a unilaterally barbed point. A few 
notched stones appear to have been net sinkers. 
Fragments of pottery were more numerous than any other material. 
No whole vessels were found. Most of the ware was tempered with 
crushed stone, but a few pieces had shell tempering. Some of the pots 
were of unusual shape and others bear unusual designs. A few possessed 
handles. The stone objects included a few adzes and celts, hammerstones 
(both pitted and battering hammers), and antler flaking punches. Of 
