7 
Second, Series 
Nine 
Nine 
children’s 
adult’s 
lectures 
lectures 
Total attendance 
6,280 
3,560 
Average attendance . . . . 
698 
396 
First 
and Second Series 
Children 
Adults 
Total attendance 
10,080 
5,045 
Total attendance at all lectures 
15,125 
DIVISION 
OF ANTHROPOLOGY 
The activities of the staff 
were limited almost wholly 
to office work. 
During the early part of the fiscal year Diamond Jenness assembled 
and examined the anthropological papers to be submitted at the Fifth 
Pacific Science Congress, and guided through the press a special volume, 
on the “ Origin and Antiquity of the American Aborigines ”, that he had 
compiled and edited for the occasion. He attended the congress meetings 
in Victoria and Vancouver during the months of June and July, organized 
and presided over its anthropological section, and presented the opening 
paper at a general symposium on the origin of the American Indians. 
After his return to Ottawa Mr. Jenness completed the preparation of 
the monograph on the Carrier Indians of Northern British Columbia, and 
attended to the numerous routine duties of his office, particularly those 
relating to inquiries concerning the Indians and Eskimos of Canada. He 
advised and assisted the Department of Anthropology of Columbia Uni- 
versity, the Philadelphia Museum, and the University of Pennsylvania, in 
the preparation of plans for field work within Canadian territory, and acted 
also as a member of the Interdepartmental Reindeer Committee. For the 
Department of the Interior he prepared a memorandum on the relation of 
the Eskimos to the Indians, and compiled a map showing the distribution 
and boundaries of the Indian tribes in northeastern North America in the 
year 1774, just before the outbreak of the War of Independence. 
C. M. Barbeau’s work during the year proceeded partly along the same 
lines as previously. The Asiatic origin of our northwestern natives was 
further investigated in the light of abundant materials still to be marshalled 
on their migrations across Bering strait. A large number of Chinese song 
records, recently acquired, are being studied, and whatever similarities with 
British Columbia themes exist are being traced. A collection of north- 
eastern Siberian records, loaned by the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, New York, is now being transcribed, for close comparison with our 
materials; they are part of the same cultural system. Two papers, in 
the nature of advance instalments on the subject, were published during 
the year (Musical Quarterly, January, 1934, and Fifth Pacific Science 
Congress). Further progress was also made on prospective monographs on 
the southward migrations of the Tsimsyan. 
A number of papers were prepared on request, and addresses were 
given, since they facilitate incidental research without any Museum out- 
lay. A large body of pictorial documents of the Indians of the St. 
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