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intervals in this work he made motion picture negatives of the Carrier, 
Gitksan, and Tsimshian Indians in the vicinity, and investigated archae- 
ological sites in Bulkley and Skeena River valleys. He visited also a 
number of sites near Prince Rupert, and directed the partial excavation of a 
kitchen-midden at Seal cove, the labour for which was kindly furnished by 
the Seal Cove Lumber Company. This midden was of unusual interest 
because the stump of a large cedar tree that had grown above it fixed its 
minimum date at a little more than 360 years. A human skeleton was 
discovered in the course of the excavations, although the Indians of this 
neighbourhood practised cremation at the time of their discovery. Two 
rare specimens of stone mirrors were obtained in the course of field work; 
one was found at Hazelton in Gitksan area, the other on Digby island, in 
the territory of the Tsimshian. Before returning to Ottawa Mr. Smith 
examined a petroglyph on the top of the plateau overlooking Fraser River 
valley near Alexandria Bridge. 
Mr. W. J. Wintemberg investigated some ancient Indian camping- 
sites in the vicinity of Tadoussac which had been erroneously ascribed 
to Eskimo occupation. After completing this work he explored the north 
shore of the gulf of St. Lawrence from Tadoussac to Lanoraie, west of 
Three Rivers, locating a number of archseological sites and securing a 
fairly large collection of specimens. A fuller account of his field work 
appears later. 
Dr. J. C. Boileau Grant, Professor of Anatomy in the University of 
Manitoba, travelled with a Geological Survey field party to Gods and 
Island lakes, in northeastern Manitoba, where he made an anthropometric 
study for the Museum of the Cree and Ojibwa Indians living in those 
districts. Altogether, he measured over four hundred Indians, one hundred 
and seventy-one of whom were men over twenty-one years of age. During 
the winter he has been tabulating his figures, working out the means and 
averages of the various measurements, and preparing a detailed report on 
the physical characteristics of the two tribes. 
Office Work 
On returning from the field, Mr. Jenness resumed the administrative 
duties attached to the division that always occupy a considerable propor- 
tion of his office hours. He prepared for the Director numerous memor- 
anda relating to various subjects, exercised a general supervision over the 
arrangement and exhibition of specimens and the preparation of scientific 
reports, and handled a considerable volume of correspondence in con- 
nexion with the division’s activities. During the winter he edited and 
submitted for publication three manuscripts: one, by Professor T. F. 
Mcllwraith, on the “Bella Coola Indians of British Columbia”; one, by 
Professor Leonard Bloomfield, on “Cree Language and Folk-lore”; and 
one, by W. J. Wintemberg, on the “Archaeology of the Uren Site in South- 
eastern Ontario.” He completed also one of his own manuscripts, a 
“Comparative Vocabulary of the Western Eskimo Dialects,” which is now 
in press; and made considerable progress on a comprehensive text-book, 
covering all the aboriginal tribes in Canada, for which there has long been 
a constant demand. 
Mr. Barbeau devoted much time to the preparation of a voluminous 
monograph on “The Totem-poles of the Gitksan,” which is now near com- 
