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of the manual arts of the eastern woodland tribes can profitably be under- 
taken unless it be coupled with an extensive knowledge of the colonial arts 
of the same period. 
W. J. Wintemberg carried on archaeological explorations from June to 
October, first in the Maiitime Provinces, then, at the end of the season, in 
Ontario. A reconnaissance of Magdalen islands revealed few evidences of 
Indian occupation, but from a pre-European Micmac site in eastern New 
Brunswick he obtained much pottery and other interesting material. 
Even more fruitful was a pre-European Neutral-Iroquoian site that he 
excavated in southern Ontario. It yielded large quantities of pottery, 
pipes, arrowpoints, and other artifacts of bone or stone, belonging to a 
transitional cultural stage that preceded the culture found in this area by 
the earliest Europeans. 
J. C. Boileau Grant, now Professor of Anatomy in the University of 
Toronto, who has been making an anthropometric survey of the Canadian 
aborigines, visited the Cree Indian reserves in the vicinity of Lesser Slave 
lake, and examined more than two hundred individuals. The working up 
of his results was proceeded with during the winter months in such leisure 
as his university duties permitted. 
I. A. Lopatin, now attached to the University of Washington, Seattle, 
investigated, from the middle of June until early September, the social 
organization and religious beliefs of the Indians at Kitimat, Douglas 
channel, B.C. 
J. T. MacPherson, of the University of Toronto, visited, early in June, 
the Indian reserves on lake Abitibi, on the Quebec-Ontario boundary, to 
study the organization, customs, and beliefs of the local Ojibwa Indians. 
He completed his investigations in September, and commenced the writing 
of his report during the winter months. 
The services of Harlan I. Smith, archeologist of the National Museum, 
were lent to the National Parks Branch, Department of the Interior, 
throughout the summer in order that he might reorganize its tourist museum 
in Banff, Alberta. While engaged in this work he labelled some of the 
nature walks within the Banff National park and took motion pictures of 
the animal life and of the Stony Indians in the vicinity. 
Office Work 
D. Jenness devoted most of his attention during the year to the pre- 
paration of his textbook on the Indians of Canada, a book in two parts : 
the first being a general account of their manners, customs, religious beliefs, 
and earlier history; the second a description of the individual tribes. 
Early in the year the National Research Council appointed Mr. Jenness 
chairman of the Anthropological sub-section of the Fifth Pacific Science 
Congress which meets in Vancouver, May, 1932, and a considerable pro- 
portion of his time has been devoted to the drawing up of a suitable anthro- 
pological program. For the same congress he is compiling a series of ten 
papers, by competent authorities, on the “Origin and Antiquity of the 
American Aborigines,” w'hich will be published in book form for distri- 
bution to the delegates. He published tw r o papers during the year: “The 
Indian's Interpretation of Man and Nature,” in the Transactions of the 
Royal Society, and “The Yukon Telegraph Line,” in the Canadian Geo- 
graphical Journal. 
