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Each lecture was followed by appropriate motion pictures secured 
from the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, the Northwest 
Territories Branch, the Canadian National Parks Branch, the Department 
of National Defence, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the Province 
of Ontario Moving Picture Bureau, the United States Bureau of Mines, 
the United States Department of Agriculture, and the American Museum 
of Natural History, to each of whom thanks are due. 
FIELD WORK 
Statements of field investigations carried out by, or for, the Museum 
are given in the following reports by the heads of the various divisions. 
In the case of geology and geography, readers are referred to the Summary 
Report of the Geological Survey, where also are included fuller state- 
ments of work done in mineralogy and paleontology. 
DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY 
D. Jenness, Chief of the Division, reports: 
The organization and personnel of the Division of Anthropology 
underwent no change during the past year. The need for an additional 
ethnologist to take the places of Dr. Sapir and Mr. Waugh, former members 
of the staff, becomes more evident every year, for if is difficult with the 
division as now constituted to conduct any ethnological researches among 
the Indians of eastern or northern Canada. The lack of a physical anthro- 
pologist was partly overcome through the temporary employment of 
Professor J. B. Grant, of the University of Manitoba. It is a pleasure to 
record that the excellent services of the preparator, Mr. J. D. Leechman, 
received recognition through his promotion to the position of senior museum 
assistant. 
An outstanding feature in the jear’s activities w T as the acquisition of 
fourteen large, new cases for the east Exhibition Hall. These are now 
being assembled, and when installed will permit the display of specimens 
from the Plains and Northern Indians that receive little attention at the 
present time. Some of the cases will serve also for synoptic exhibits; and 
Mr. Leechman has already assembled an attractive collection of cradle- 
boards and photographs to illustrate the aboriginal methods of carrying 
children. He has also prepared for this hall a model of a habitat group 
showing a Sarcee tipi or tent, fully furnished, with two men painting a 
record of war exploits on a blanket; and he is gradually gathering material 
for a full-sized group based on this model. The tent alone will require 
nearly two dozen buffalo hides; the division possesses at present only four, 
donated by the National Parks Branch of the Department of the Interior. 
When completed this east Exhibition Hall should prove as attractive 
and instructive to the public as the west hall, which remains the same as 
last year, except for a rearrangement of the five cases devoted to the 
Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia. 
The collections both in the exhibition halls and in the storage rooms 
were again inspected monthly throughout the year, with the result that no 
specimens were lost or injured by insect pests. The printed forms attached 
to the storage cabinets in 1926 greatly facilitated this work. 
