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ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIVISION 
Field and Office Work 
During the year Museum Bulletin No. 75 “Folk-Songs of Old Quebec/' 
by Marius Barbeau, was published both in English and in French, its 
French title being “ Chansons Populaires du Vieux Quebec.” It includes 
an historical sketch about the songs, 15 songs, and a complete bibliography 
of the work so far done on Canadian folk-songs. Several other articles 
w'ere published and lectures on Indians and French Canada were given. 
Mr. Barbeau spent four and a half months in field work in the province 
of Quebec. Historical notes were taken from the archives of the Ursuline3 
Convent, the Hotel-Dieu, and Hopital-General in connexion with ancient 
manual arts, in particular embroidery as once taught to many Indian 
girls in training. A number of drawings were made of embroidered designs 
and several hundred photographs were taken. The voluminous parish 
records of the Notre-Dame church, Montreal, were carefully studied and 
annotated by Mile. Antonine Bernier, acting as assistant, and the numerous 
entries about ancient craftsmen were copied and later classified. A number 
of other parish records were studied. The early traditions of the districts 
of Charlevoix and Chicoutimi received particular attention and many nar- 
ratives and notes were taken from dictation. Miss Regina Shoolman, acting 
as assistant, studied the records of the seigniories of Murray Bay and of 
Mount Murray; she also made a collection of folk-songs at Cabano on lake 
Temiscouata. Mr. Barbeau also studied extensively the traditional craft 
of pottery making in various parts of Quebec. He made a museum collec- 
tion of wood carvings and homespuns. Moving pictures of ancient French- 
Canadian arts and folk life were taken under Mr. Barbeau's direction by 
Richard Finnie. 
During the remainder of the year folk materials were collected through 
correspondents. They consist mostly of several hundred games for children, 
round dances and play rhymes, short folk tales and anecdotes, furnished 
by Adelard Lambert of Berthier-en-haut, Quebec. About two months 
were given to the sorting of a large part of the folk-song collections accu- 
mulated in the past twenty years. The work for the year covered more 
than 4,000 items, leaving only a small part of the collection still unsorted. 
Diamond Jenness during the summer of 1935 continued preparation of 
a report on the Sarcee Indians of Alberta. He collaborated with H. I. 
Smith on the filming of an Indian motion picture at Golden and Rice lakes, 
Ontario. In September he left for British Columbia to investigate the Salish 
Indians of southeastern Vancouver island and the opposite mainland, return- 
ing to Ottawa on March 21. Although the work in British Columbia was 
primarily ethnological a number of ancient kitchen-middens were examined, 
from which many archseological specimens, among them the skeleton of a 
narrow-headed type of Indian that has long been extinct, were recovered. 
While in the field he lectured, by invitation, at the University of British 
Columbia in Vancouver, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and, 
on the return journey, at the University of Toronto. 
While in British Columbia Mr. Jenness prepared a lengthy article on 
the Indians of the Northwest Territories for the Department of the Interior, 
