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Map 2274. 270A. Indians of Canada. Linguistic and Tribal Divisions. . . .In pocket 
Part I 
A Sioux Indian. Painting by Paul Coze Frontispiece 
A Kootenay chief, a typical Lidian of the plains, although his home lies west of 
the Rocky mountains (Photo by James Teit) 3 
A Tahltan hunter, typical of the Indians of northern Ckinada (Photo by James 
Teit) :.. .‘ 5 
A typical Eskimo of Hudson bay (Photo by A. P. Low) 7 
Major physical divisions of Canada (by D. A. Nichols) 10 
Cultural areas of Canada 11 
A Kwakiutl woman of Vancouver island, representative of the Indians of the 
Pacific coast. Tight ligatures in infancy have unnaturally elongated her 
head (Photo by G. M. Dawson) 13 
Cree-Ojibwa village of Ijark lodges. Painting fjy Verner, in the Public Archives of 
Canada 18 
Interior of an Iroquois long-house (reproduced, through the courtesy of A. C. Parker, 
Municij)al Museum, Rochester, from a painting by R. J. Tucker) 23 
Indian methods of making fire: a, lumps of iron pyrites; h, a fire-jJough; c, a hand- 
drill; t/, a pumji-drill 29 
Eskimo archers of Coronation gulf. Their bow had an extreme range of only 125 
yards and an effective range of from 30 to 40 (Photo by Sir G. Huliert Wilkins) 31 
An Eskimo of the MackeTizie River delta using a bow-drill for piercing bone (Photo 
byJ. R. Cox) 35 
8ome basic aboriginal stone tools: knife, adze, hammer, drill, and scraper 37 
Carrier Indian woman dressing a moose hide with a stone-bladed scraper (Photo 
i)y Harlan I. Smith) 39 
Corn cultivation among the Hurons (from Lafitau, J. F.: Moeurs des Sauvages 
Amcriquains, vol. 2, p. 155, Paris, 1724) 41 
Modern Ojiljwa Indians harvesting wild rice in the same manner as their forefathers 
(Photo by F. W. Waugh; 42 
Red elderberries drying in the sun, Bella Coola (Photo by Harlan 1. Smith) 44 
Smoke-houses of the Tsimshian Hulians, for drying salmon, Kitkargas, B.C. (Photo 
by C. M. Barbeau) ‘ 47 
Salmon caches of the Coast Salish Indians, Fraser river, B.C. (Photo by R. May- 
nard) 50 
A buffalo pound (from Franklin, J.: “Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the 
Polar Sea,” p. 113, London, 1823) 55 
Plains’ Indian running a buffalo (reproduced, through the courtesy of the Public 
Archives of Canada, from a painting by George Catlin) 57 
Coronation Gulf Eskimos .s]>earing salmon trout (Photo by D. Jenness) 02 
Fishtraps of the Tsimshian Indians, at Kitkargas, B.C. (Photo l)y C. M. Barbeau). 04 
A salinon-weir on the Cowichan river, B.C. (Photo by Gentile) 00 
Coast Salish v\a)man weaving a blanket of dog hair and mountain-goat wool; another 
woman spinning the wool; in the foreground a shorn dog (reproduced, through 
the courtesy of the Royal Dntario Museum of Arclueology, from a painting 
by Ihiul Kane) 08 
Man, woman, and child of the Nootka tril^e, west coast of Vancouver island (repro- 
duced, through the courtesy of the Public Archives of Canada, from Atlas para 
el viage de las goletas sutil y Mcxicajia al reconocimiento del estrecho dc 
Juan de Fuca en 1792, publicado en 1802) 09 
An Indian of the plains, in the modified costume of the late nineteenth century 
(Photo by Canadian National Railways) 71 
