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DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY 
Field Work 
Almost no field work has been done since 1930, a consequence of the 
depression. This year, at very slight expense to the Department, Douglas 
Leechman accompanied the expedition that is sent yearly to the eastern 
Arctic region for delivery of supplies and for administrative purposes. Dur- 
ing the voyage, which lasted from July 6 to October 2, Mr. Leechman was 
able to go ashore for periods of a few hours to a few days at sixteen places 
on the coasts of Labrador, Hudson bay, James bay, Baffin island, and 
Ellesmere island, to collect ancient Eskimo remains and to obtain informa- 
tion about ancient habitations with a view to their future examination. 
Several promising sites were located. 
Office Work 
Diamond Jenness, who is a member of a committee on Arctic explora- 
tion set up by the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethno- 
logical Sciences held in London, August, 1934, drew up an outline of archaeo- 
logical and ethnological work that remains to be done in the Canadian Arctic 
as part of a larger scheme covering the Arctic regions of the Old and New 
Worlds. He also worked over part of the Museum’s collection of Eskimo 
specimens from Coronation gulf, which is possibly the largest and most 
important collection of its kind. 
C. M. Barbeau continued a comparative study of Siberian songs with 
those of northwestern Canada, using phonograph records of the former 
lent by the American Museum of Natural History. He continued his 
study of the early art, and handicraft-weaving, wood-carving, and silver- 
work, folk-lore and songs, of Quebec and Ontario. For an interesting set 
of Ojibway songs he is indebted to Dr. E. Seaborn of London, Ontario, and 
for folk-lore and folk songs of Quebec to Mr. Adelard Lambert, of Drum- 
mondville. 
Harlan I. Smith continued to build up a reference file of information 
on Canadian archseology. He received exceptionally valuable and well- 
prepared records from Mr. Francis J. Barrow, of Sidney, B.C., and from 
Mr. Russell A. Johnston, of Helmsdale, Alberta. For the second year 
Mr. Barrow has made a three months’ voyage over a thousand miles along 
the coast of British Columbia, making notes, sketches, maps, and photo- 
graphic records of Indian remains. Copies of this excellent information 
he has given to the National Museum and to similar institutions in British 
Columbia, United States, and England. Mr. Smith also continued his 
efforts to interest artists and manufacturers in the application of Indian 
designs. 
Douglas Leechman continued, as other duties permitted, his studies 
of methods of preservation and repair of anthropological relics and the 
application of light rays and other physical means to the examination of 
such material. His bulletin on “ Technical Methods of Preservation of 
Anthropological Museum Specimens ” has now been translated into French 
and German. 
