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and a second article, on the Archaeological Problems in Canada, for “ Ameri- 
can Antiquity,” the journal published by the Society for American Archae- 
ology. 
Douglas Leechman spent from July 12 to October 2 in field work 
in the vicinity of Port Burwell, northeastern Quebec. About three weeks 
were spent at each of two sites: one on Button islands at the southeast 
point of Hudson strait, about 30 miles north of Port Burwell; and one at 
the southwest part of McLelan strait about 6 miles southeast of Port 
Burwell. At each of these sites, two ruined Eskimo igloos were exca- 
vated, measurements and photographs taken, and collections of specimens 
made. Traces of two distinct cultures, the Thule and the Cape Dorset, 
were found. About 800 specimens were obtained, either by actual col- 
lection in the field (700) or by purchase (100). A separate preliminary 
report on this work has already been submitted. 
Harlan I. Smith continued to assemble, amplify, analyse, and classify 
information on the sites and subjects of Canadian archaeology. Again 
valuable results were received from the volunteer field work of Mr. Francis 
J. Barrow, of Sidney, B.C., and from Mr. Russell A. Johnston, of Helms- 
dale, Alberta. For the third successive year Mr. Barrow has made a three 
months’ voyage, of over 1,000 miles, along the coast of British Columbia, 
making notes, sketches, photographs, and maps of Indian pictographs, this 
year reporting on over thirty localities. 
Mr. Smith spent four weeks in the field at Golden and Rice lakes, 
Ontario, taking a motion picture of Ojibwa Indian life, in collaboration 
with Mr. Jenness. This picture includes the making of a birch-bark canoe 
and the harvesting of wild rice. 
Mr. Smith brought to the attention of those interested that birch- 
bark canoes may still be had in Canada for museum specimens, for practical 
use, or as souvenirs and tourist attractions. This has resulted in orders 
being received from over thirty places — one as far away as New Zealand — 
which provided employment for deserving Indians. 
W. J. Wintefnberg, on July 4 and 5, in collaboration with Dr. J. C. 
B. Grant, Professor of Anatomy, University of Toronto, partly excavated 
a prehistoric Indian cemetery in the city of Windsor, Ontario. Several 
bundle burials, surrounded by skulls, and two torso burials (that is, lack- 
ing the skulls and the arm and leg bones) were discovered. Five of the 
skulls have a hole drilled through the sagittal suture near the bregma. 
Extending across the parietals of another skull is a lenticular opening 
about 3 inches long and $ inch wide, which seems to have been made by 
sawing with a chipped chert knife. Two artificially perforated long-bones, 
one a humerus and the other a femur, were found in one of the bundles 
of bones. 
Between July 9 and September 7, Mr. Wintemberg made an intensive 
exploration of the well-known double-walled Southwold earthenworks in 
Elgin county, Ontario, about 10 miles southwest of St. Thomas. Traces of 
the palisades and many moulds of the holes of wall posts of houses were 
discovered. Most of the archaeological material discovered in the site 
(especially the pottery and earthenware pipes) is of the same character 
as that from some other Neutral village sites previously explored, and 
indicates that this site also was inhabited by Neutrals, and that it is pre- 
historic. 
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