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and C. B. Osgood, of the University of Chicago, travelled down Mackenzie 
river to Norman where he has undertaken to make a complete ethnological 
study of the Hare Indians during the winter of 1928-29. 
The field work of H. I. Smith added 323 ethnological and 53 archaeo- 
logical specimens to the Museum’s collections, together with more than 
4,500 feet of motion picture film. The Indian tribes are now so civilized 
that it is very difficult to obtain specimens of their earlier tools, weapons, 
and household furniture, no examples of which will be available a few 
years hence. The division is, therefore, making a special effort to enlarge 
its collections while this is still possible, and attempting at the same time to 
secure photographic records of the fast vanishing native life. It now has 
material for motion picture films of six different tribes, five in British 
Columbia and one on the plains. 
C. M. Barbeau spent the field season in Quebec city and its vicinity 
studying, photographing, and copying historical records concerning the 
carvings, paintings, and handicrafts of French Canada. In September he 
attended, with D. Jenness, the meetings of the International Congress of 
Americanists in New York, where he read a paper on “The Origin of Flora 
and Other Designs Among the North American Indians” that outlined 
some of the results obtained from his researches. 
W. J. Wintemberg made two notable discoveries during the summer. 
On the north shore of the strait of Belle Isle he found a camping site of the 
extinct Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland, thus proving that they occupied 
at one time the southeast corner of Labrador peninsula. He discovered 
also a camping site of the Iroquois Indians near Kegashka, which is several 
hundred miles east of the known range of Iroquois forays. 
Dr. Grant was very successful in securing measurements and observa- 
tions of a large number of Indians at lake Athabaska which provided him, 
among other results, with valuable conclusions concerning the physiological 
effects of Indian and white admixture. Some blood tests that he obtained 
from the same Indians confirmed the theory that the pure blood natives 
do not possess either of the agglutinogens that are generally present in 
European and Asiatic peoples, a difference that may prove to have an 
important bearing on the problem of the origin of our native races in 
America. 
A letter from C. B. Osgood, written just before Christmas and received 
two months later, stated that he was wintering with a small band of Hare 
Indians at the outlet of Great Bear lake. Influenza had been rife among 
the natives and the fishing was poor, so that they were suffering consider- 
able hardship. His work, nevertheless, was proceeding favourably. 
Office Work 
The division published two scientific reports during the past year: 
“A Comparative Vocabulary of the Western Eskimo Dialects,” by D. 
Jenness; and “The Uren Prehistoric Village Site, Oxford County, Ontario” 
by W. J. Wintemberg. Two other reports have been submitted for publi- 
cation: “Totem-Poles of the Gitksan,” by C. M. Barbeau; and “Anthro- 
pometry of the Cree and Ojibway Indians in Northeastern Manitoba,” by 
Professor J. C. Boileau Grant. A preliminary report on the Anthro- 
pometry and Blood Groupings of the Cree and Chipewyan Indians of Lake 
