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Mr. Barbeau proceeded with the preparation of the materials and 
text for his monograph on “ The Eagle Phratry of the Tsimsyans, Its 
Southward Migrations.” Part of the introduction is practically ready and 
a considerable part of the Indian narratives on the past history of the 
Eagle clans. 
The migration of the Eagle clans forms part of a significant drift of 
population southwards in the whole northwest, from Alaska into British 
Columbia, and across the Rockies eastward toward Hudson Bay or south- 
ward to the Great Plains. It illustrates natural processes also at work 
elsewhere. For that reason close attention is devoted to the whole problem 
of southward migrations in the northwest and ultimately the Siberian 
origin of the migratory tribes that crossed Bering Sea not so long ago. 
Several papers were written on this topic during the year in preparation for 
the general introduction of the monograph on the Eagle phratry. 
A number of Tsimsyan Indian songs, prepared for a large museum 
monograph now ready for publication, were compared with kindred Asiatic 
materials. This study in the latter part of the fiscal year brought remark- 
able results. A number of Indian songs studied by Mr. Barbeau ljn 
collaboration with Professor Kiang, a Chinese authority now at McGill 
University, proved closely to resemble some Chinese songs; particularly 
a group of dirge songs in connexion with burial ceremonies and incineration, 
which plainly discloses that a primitive form of Buddhism was prevalent 
among the Northwest Coast Indians in late prehistoric time. This shows 
that the ancestors of the Indians presumably had moved out of Siberia 
after Buddhism had travelled from India through China, and penetrated 
Siberia, possibly after the tenth century. 
A group of songs, collected for the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 
among the Koriaks, Chuckchee, and Yukaghir of Siberia were studied early 
in January at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. 
They disclose surprisingly close historical affiliations with the songs of 
Northwestern Indians in a number of ways; among other things, the three- 
fold native, Chinese and Cossack elements in Siberian songs which are also 
found, but less intensively, in the songs of the British Columbia natives. 
The work on the migration and Asiatic origin of these Northwestern 
Indians and the Tsimsyans occupied most of the year. 
A volume of fifty French-Canadian folk songs with historical annota- 
tions was completed in the spring of 1932. 
Mr. Barbeau's services were lent for several weeks, in August and 
September, to the Quebec Government in connexion with the Zoological 
Garden of Charlesbourg. He helped in the elaboration of plans for the 
conservation of handicrafts and traditional resources of French Canada, in 
particular in so far as they bear on the economic life of the country. During 
that period several counties around Quebec were revisited, specimens were 
collected, photographs taken, and useful information gathered. 
Mr. Barbeau during the year enabled the Quebec Government to pro- 
cure one of the finest totem poles of the Northwest Coast for the Zoological 
Garden; and also the British Museum, of London, to acquire a totem pole 
from Nass River. He prepared extensive historical notes on these totem 
poles, and also on those acquired the previous year for the Royal Ontario 
Museum, of Toronto. 
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