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he will present its results in a series of monographs. The first, on the “Totem 
Poles of the Gitksan,” is in the press, and another on the “Songs of the Tsim- 
shian,” in preparation. Later monographs will describe and give the history 
of the phratric groups in the following order: the Eagle, the Wolf, the 
Raven-Larhsail, and the Fireweed-Killer-whale. During the period of 
field work Mr. Barbeau photographed a considerable number of Tsimshian 
and Haida carvings in the Municipal Museum, Vancouver, in the Pro- 
vincial Museum, Victoria, and in the private collections of the Messrs. 
Newcombe, also at Victoria. He collected a number of specimens for the 
National Museum, and some totem poles for the Royal Ontario Museum 
of Archaeology, Toronto. 
Harlan I. Smith secured 6,000 feet of motion picture film illustrating 
the Coast Salish, Kwakiutl, and Nootka Indians of Vancouver island, and 
360 ethnological and archaeological specimens, among them a doorway 
consisting of two large carved posts and a crossbeam. He discovered and 
photographed a number of petroglyphs on Hornby island, some of which 
are being rapidly destroyed by tidal action. 
W. J. Wintemberg, in his investigation of the west coast of New- 
foundland, discovered traces of Eskimo occupation in ten different locali- 
ties, the southernmost being at Bonne bay. He obtained from these settle- 
ments a considerable number of stone and bone implements, which so 
closely resemble specimens of the peculiar Eskimo culture found a few 
years ago at Dorset, in Hudson bay, that they must have been made by an 
offshoot of the same people. There was no trace of iron in any of the 
sites, which were, probably, occupied before 1500 A.D., when European 
fishermen began to frequent the island. 
J. C. Boileau Grant successfully measured one hundred and ninety- 
one Beaver and Cree Indians on Peace river, and tested the blood-groupings 
of one hundred and three. He is withholding a detailed account of his 
results pending investigations of the Indians of Great Slave Lake area, 
when he will unite the data from the two regions in a single monograph. 
In lieu of a full report on his own seasons’ field work he is analysing and 
preparing for publication the anthropometric data obtained by D. Jenness 
in 1924 at the headwaters of Peace river and in the adjoining districts of 
British Columbia. 
C. B. Osgood, who spent the winter 1928-9 at the outlet of Great 
Bear lake, made a complete circuit of the lake during the spring, visiting 
all the camps of the Hare Indians, and finishing up his study of that tribe. 
Since his return to Chicago at the end of the summer he has been working 
on his report, which he hopes to submit shortly. 
Office Work 
The division published two reports during the past year: “Some 
Shell-Heaps of Nova Scotia,” by Harlan I. Smith and W. J. Wintemberg, 
and “Anthropometry of the Cree and Saulteaux Indians in Northeastern 
Manitoba,” by J. C. Boileau Grant. Three other reports are going through 
the press: “Totem Poles of the Gitksan,” by C. M. Barbeau; “Sacred 
Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree,” by L. Bloomfield; and “Anthropometry 
