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Lawrence and of ancient folk life and crafts by the early painter Cornelius 
Krieghoff have in that way been discovered this year and some of them 
brought together for study. The Indians of Caughnawaga and Lorette 
were the usual theme of the painter's compositions, during the period of 
their evolution from 1842 to 1867. The number discovered exceeds four 
hundred, all of which have been analysed, annotated for further use, and 
some of them photographed at the Museum. They contribute the most 
valuable pictorial record on the subject in existence. 
During the lecture tour in the Maritimes, the museums and archives 
of Halifax and Saint John were visited; the new provincial museum at 
Saint John contains much valuable materials on folk crafts. Some study 
was also made of ancient local folk crafts at Saint John, St. Andrews, 
and St. Stephen, and a number of photographs w f ere taken. 
The new folk-lore collections of this year consist mostly of excellent 
materials collected and communicated without charge, as in former years, 
by Mr. Adelard Lambert, of Drummondville, Quebec ; also some texts found 
in the papers of the late Mrs. Mount-Duckett, of Montreal. 
The new Lambert collection contains fifty-nine folk songs, with 
melodies recorded on the phonograph; forty-four chilren's games and play- 
parties; sixteen folk rhymes; and seven folk tales and anecdotes. 
Mrs. Duckett's collection included ten texts of folk songs, nineteen 
folk rhymes, four fragments of English-Canadian songs; and a few photo- 
graphs. 
Nine songs with texts and melodies, collected by Miss Berthe Mantha, 
of Orleans, near Ottawa, were received from Mr. Gustave Lanctot, of the 
Archives, Ottawa. 
Mr. Barbeau also collected information on lumberjacks and their life 
in the woods, and took photographs in the Gatineau district. 
Harlan I. Smith continued to assemble and arrange information on 
the archaeological sites and numerous other subjects of Canadian archaeology. 
In this work Mr. Smith completed a list of all the data so far assembled on 
archaeological sites in north and central Alberta. He described pictographs 
and petroglyphs from photographs and sketches made by Mr. Francis J. 
Barrow of Sidney, B.C., on a three months' trip of over 1,100 nautical 
miles in search of pictographs and petroglyphs among the fiords and islands 
of eastern Vancouver island and the adjacent mainland. The resultant 
notes, photographs, colour sketches, and key maps to the locations of the 
sites were most generously donated by Mr. Barrow to the National Museum 
of Canada. 
Mr, Smith continued his efforts to bring to the attention of artists and 
manufacturers the possibilities of using designs from Canadian Indian 
art and archaeology for distinctive Canadian manufactures and souvenirs. 
These designs reproduce some of the earliest art of Canada, which illustrates 
the first mythology of the country. 
His services were lent to the Quebec Government as consultant on 
the preservation and erection of a totem pole from Nass river, British 
Columbia, in the new Zoological Gardens near Quebec city. 
