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C. M. Barbeau’s time at the Museum was mostly devoted to the 
completion of his “Totem-Poles of the Gitksan,” which was submitted for 
publication early in the winter, and to the transcription of Tsimshian 
songs from phonograph records. A set of over a hundred of these songs 
with melodies, texts, translations, and explanations, is being prepared as 
a Museum monograph to be completed early in the winter of 1930. The 
preparation and supervision of the Folk-Song and Handicraft Festival at 
Quebec required considerable time in the spring of 1929. Over a hundred 
French-Canadian folk-songs, from the Museum collection, have been sent 
to several musicians for harmonization and are being published in Canada, 
England, and the United States. 
W. J. Wintemberg completed his memoir on the Roebuck Village Site 
and also prepared a paper on Representations of the Thunderbird in 
Indian Art. 
Museum Work 
In the west anthropological hall the entire series of exhibits devoted 
to the Nootka Indians of Vancouver island has been completely rearranged. 
Many of the specimens shown in these exhibition cases are old and of 
considerable value; in their present arrangement they should prove both 
attractive and instructive to the visiting public. The east anthropological 
hall is now equipped with fourteen large exhibition cases that only require 
diaphragms to make them available for immediate use. One case has al- 
ready been supplied with a temporary diaphragm in order to display the 
fine collection of Stoney Indian specimens generously presented by Martin 
Nordegg; and a second case contains an experimental exhibit of basketry 
arranged on glass shelves. Much -work was done by Douglas Leechman 
in cleaning and repairing specimens in storage, many of which are a heritage 
from earlier years when the Museum did not possess a staff with knowledge 
of and experience in their care and treatment. 
Accessions to Museum 
The anthropological collections of the Museum were augmented 
during the year as follows: 
Ethnological 406 specimens 
Archaeological 380 “ 
Osteological 12 “ 
Total 798 “ 
The majority of these specimens -were collected by H. I. Smith and 
W. J. Wintemberg in the course of field work, but the list includes a valu- 
able collection of old Stoney Indian specimens. 
The storage of specimens still presents great difficulties, in spite of 
the fact that a new room, No. 16, has been provided in the basement. 
The Frank Street building in which the Division of Anthropology occupies 
the upper storey, is altogether unsuitable for storage purposes because the 
warmth and the daylight to which the specimens are exposed are causing 
their slow disintegration, so that many will be totally destroyed within 
the next 25 or 50 years if they are allowed to remain in their present location. 
