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Athabaska, covering Professor Grant’s field work during the summer, has 
come to hand. W. J. Wintemberg is completing a report on the Roebuck 
Village Site in Southeastern Ontario; D. Jenness is preparing a textbook 
on the Aborigines of Canada, and C. M. Barbeau a monograph on the 
Songs of the Tsimshian. 
C. M. Barbeau published jointly with Dr. Ernest MacMillan a volume 
of French-Canadian folk-songs entitled “Twenty-one Folk-songs of 
French Canada,” and D. Jenness had an article on the “Physiography and 
Archaeology of Little Diomede Island, Bering Strait,” in the Geographical 
Review for January, 1928. 
The division supplied material for five outside exhibits during the 
past year, each of which entailed considerable office work. It lent a series 
of French-Canadian specimens for the Canadian Folk-Lore Festival held 
at Quebec in May; in August it contributed a large number of specimens 
from various parts of Canada for an exhibition in connexion with the 
centenary celebration at Pembroke, Ontario; in the autumn it furnished 
the Canadian National Railways with Pacific Coast Indian specimens for 
two exhibits, one in Chicago and one in Toronto; and in November it lent a 
series of old Iroquois specimens to the Buffalo Academy of Science to fill 
out a special exhibit that was being arranged by that institution. 
Dr. A. Hrdlicka, Curator of Physical Anthropology in the Smithsonian 
Institution, Washington, and Mr. Walter B. Cline, of Harvard University, 
spent several days at the Museum in the course of the summer studying its 
Eskimo and Salish crania. Professor R. R. Gates, of King’s College, 
London, also visited the Museum to obtain information concerning the 
Indian tribes of Mackenzie River basin. 
Mr. Jenness superintended the passage through the press of his 
“Comparative Vocabulary of the Western Eskimo Dialects,” and critically 
edited the two manuscripts listed above that have been submitted for 
publication. He supplied extensive notes on the various Indian tribes of 
Canada to the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, which is pre- 
paring a hand book on the aboriginal tribes of North America, revised at 
the request of the same institution a lengthy article on the Eskimo that 
has been prepared by a member of its staff, and indexed for the Editorial 
Division eight anthropological reports published by the Museum in former 
years. His own textbook, on the Aborigines of Canada, is now well 
advanced. Much of his time, as usual, was occupied with official corres- 
pondence and with the routine duties of his office, which includes the 
general supervision of the exhibition and storage of specimens. He attended, 
with Mr. Barbeau, the meetings of the International Congress of American- 
ists in New York in September, and participated in the discussions and 
conferences which took place during its session. 
Mr. Harlan I. Smith, during the winter months, arranged for titling 
motion picture films of the Kootenay, Coast Salish, and Tsimshian Indians, 
and put in rough continuity the film of the Shuswap and Okanagan Indians. 
Besides attending to the general archaeological routine, he continued to 
secure and incorporate in the files a large body of information concerning 
archaeological sites in various parts of Canada. A portion of his time was 
also taken up by the superintendence of the Museum Lecture course and 
in the reading of proofs for publication. 
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