6 
The specimens catalogued and treated were as follows: 
Ethnology 467 
Physical anthropology . 3 
Archaeology 300 
770 
This number is smaller than in past years, but fifty boxes of Ontario and 
Quebec archaeological specimens have been piled up in a corner of the 
Eskimo storage room on the fourth floor, unopened, and uncatalogued, 
through lack of storage cabinets. Room 17 in the basement, which has 
been the main archaeological storage room of the division for many years, 
was transferred to the Geological Survey during the winter, and all the 
specimens it contained were removed to the corridor and alcoves on the 
top floor. The moulds and casts of petroglyphs on that floor, displaced to 
make room for the archaeological cabinets, will be removed as soon as 
practicable to the sub-basement. A new room in the basement will 
shortly be available for fur clothing and other perishable specimens, thus 
greatly relieving the congestion in the ethnological cabinets; but a con- 
siderable portion of the archaeological collections are now inaccessible, and 
will continue to be inaccessible until the division obtains at least one more 
storage room. 
Tw t o exchanges of specimens were arranged during the year. Lt. 
G. T. Emmons exchanged 33 specimens of Tlingit basket-makers’ materials 
for five of the Museum’s Kwakiutl wood carvings; and the National Museum 
of Denmark, Copenhagen, exchanged 120 Greenland specimens, ethnological 
and archaeological, for 58 Tsimshian specimens. The following specimens 
were donated to other institutions: 
To the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology: 
39 Eskimo specimens; 
To Loyola College, Montreal : 
34 Sarcee and West Coast specimens; 
To Dr. Francis Pospisil, Bruno Museum, Czechoslovakia: 
1 Tsimshian specimen. 
Three special exhibits were arranged during the year. The first, for 
the Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival held at Quebec in May, 
comprised French-Canadian material only. The second, for the Inter- 
national Mining Congress at Ottawa in August, displayed Indian-derived 
objects suitable for souvenirs, and also the application of West Coast 
Indian designs to the modern arts. The third exhibit, at the National 
Gallery of Canada in December, covered the whole field of West Coast 
Indian art, and proved so successful that it was shown later in Toronto 
and in Montreal. 
Miss MacDonald, of the Northwest Territories Branch of the Depart- 
ment of the Interior, spent a week with the division studying museum 
methods, prior to taking charge of the small museum attached to that 
branch. Local artists and teachers from the Normal School have con- 
tinued to borrow loan collections and miscellaneous specimens for study. 
Mr. O. E, Prud’homme, artist of the division, continued to make 
drawings of specimens to illustrate the reports of the division’s officers. 
Ill-health compelled him to apply for sick leave before Christmas and to go 
south to a warmer climate for the remainder of the winter. He returned 
to duty at the end of the fiscal year. 
