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of the Chipewyan and Cree Indians of Lake Athabaska,” by J. C. Boileau 
Grant. Two other reports, by outside wnrkers, should come in within the 
next few weeks, one on the ethnology of the Indians of Great Bear lake, 
by C. B. Osgood, the other on the anthropometry of the Carrier and 
Sekani Indians of British Columbia, prepared by J. C. B. Grant from the 
field data of D. Jenness. W. J. Wintemberg, the assistant archaeologist, 
has completed his report on the Roebuck Village Site, which will be sub- 
mitted for publication as soon as the illustrations are prepared. 
Mr. Jenness has completed the first part of his text book on the 
Indians of Canada, and rather more than half the second part. The work 
should be ready for publication before the end of the year. He also pre- 
pared about half of the final report on the results of his last summer’s field 
work. In preparation for the Fifth Pacific Science Congress to be held 
in Vancouver in 1932, he is attempting to arrange for the compilation of a 
volume of essays, by leading scientists in Canada and the United States, 
on the origin and antiquity of the aborigines of America. A tentative plan 
of the volume calls for eleven papers, five of which have already been 
promised. 
Mr. Barbeau has been working at a monograph on the Songs of the 
Tsimshian, for which he has transcribed and drawn for reproduction 
seventy-five songs, besides preparing the necessary text. Various other 
activities have required his attention; the preparation of an exhibition of 
French-Canadian handicrafts for the Ottawa Art Association in May, 
1929; correction of the proofs of his monograph on Gitksan totem poles; 
correspondence relating to Indian and folk-lore research; the organization 
of two programs of Canadian folk-songs (French, Indian, and English) 
given in a trans-Canada tour under the Association of Canadian Clubs; 
and the preparation of a few lectures and magazine articles on totem poles, 
the Skeena district, folk-songs, and Canadian art as derived from native 
sources. 
Mr. Smith set in order during the winter the negatives of six motion 
picture reels illustrating the Pacific Coast Indians, and arranged in rough 
continuity the positives of four additional reels. It is impossible at this 
date, when the Pacific Coast Indians have been in contact with Europeans 
for a century and a half, to illustrate adequately by photography their 
ancient life and customs; but the moving pictures taken by Mr. Smith 
during the last four years should be of great value to teachers and 
lecturers, as well as interesting and instructive to the general public. 
In the earlier months of the winter he devoted part of his time to 
drawing the attention of manufacturers, artists, etc., to the wealth of 
designs on Indian specimens in the Museum, some of which may be 
utilized for commercial purposes. 
Mr. Wintemberg, after completing his report on the Roebuck Village 
Site, commenced a similar report on his excavations at Lawson, an early 
Iroquoian village of slightly different date from the Roebuck. He also 
prepared for this annual report of the Museum a paper outlining the 
differences between Iroquoian and Algonkian remains in Canada, a sub- 
ject that has never before been elucidated, despite its crucial importance, 
for the interpretation of archaeological sites in the eastern provinces of the 
Dominion. 
