The North American Ethnology Collection
There are more than 5,000 artifacts in the North American Ethnology Collection, as well as more than 5,000 photographs (both original copyright and research) and oral history tapes. The primary cultural areas represented in this Collection include the Western and Eastern Sub-Arctic, the Northern Plains and the Central-Eastern Arctic.

The Hudson's Bay Company Museum Collection
The Collection consists of more than 10,000 artifacts originating from Canada's Aboriginal, Métis, Inuit and European-Canadian peoples, and reflects the history of the Great Canadian fur trade. Many items are directly associated with the long corporate history of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1670 to the present.
The ethnographic materials primarily originate from the Arctic, the Western and Eastern Sub-Arctic, the Plains and the Northwest Coast cultural areas. The Collection also contains numismatic artifacts, fine art, Inuit art and sculpture, and items associated with the Company's history in the areas of defence, the fur trade, exploration, navigation, communication and the beginnings of its retail business.

Publications


Flynn, Catherine and E. Leigh Syms. 1996.
Manitoba's First Farmers Manitoba History, No. 31, pp. 4-11.

Meiklejohn, Christopher and E. Leigh Syms. 1996.
Brett Edward Waddell (1965-1995): An Appreciation of Manitoba Archaeological Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-10.

Syms, E. Leigh. 1996.
Museums: Scattered Remnants of People's Heritage Case Study in The Geography of Manitoba: Its Land and Its People (John Welsted, John Everitt and Christoph Stadel, eds.) University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, pp. 300-301.

Syms, E. Leigh. 1996.
Selkirk Composite in Encyclopedia of North American Prehistory (Guy Gibbon, ed.) Garland Press, London, p. 944 (in press).

Syms, E. Leigh. 1996.
Williams Complex in Encyclopedia of North American Prehistory (Guy Gibbon, ed.) Garland Press, London, pp. 1175-1176 (in press).

Syms, E. Leigh. 1996.
Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature Archaeological Museum Internship Developing Awareness and Building Links with the Native Communities in Native Perspective in Canadian Archaeology (George Nicholas, ed.).

Syms, E. Leigh. 1996.
Developing Awareness and Involvement of Aboriginal People in Their Heritage Preservation. Recent Developments at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature in Native Perspectives in Canadian Archaeology (George Nicholas and Ton Andrews, eds.).

Carbone, Stanislao. 1996.
Through the Prism of History: Voices and Images of Italians in Winnipeg (Winnipeg: Manitoba Italian Heritage Committee)

Peers, Laura and Dr. K. Pettipas, 1996.
Reverend John West's Collection: Red River, 1820-1823, American Indian Art Magazine, June 1996, pp. 30-41.

Reilly, Sharon. 1997.
"Winnipeg 1919: A City in Crisis / A 75th Anniversary Exhibit on the Winnipeg General Strike" Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature Happenings (March/April1994); reprinted in Winnipeg Real Estate News and Vancouver Labour News.

Syms, E. Leigh. 1997.
At a Crossroads: Archaeology and First Peoples in Canada Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby. pp. 53-68.

Syms, E. Leigh. 1997.
At a Crossroads: Archaeology and First Peoples in Canada Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby. pp. 224-234.

Syms, E. Leigh. 2000.
Abstract of Recent Discoveries of Ancient Bone and Antler Caches: Changing Perspective on Sub-Arctic Peoples, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Ottawa, Abstracts, p. 44.

Syms, E. Leigh. 2000.
Jon Bjarnson clock on display, Logberg-Heimskringla: The Icelandic Weekly. November 3, 2000. Nov. 38, p.15.

Syms, E. Leigh. 2000.
The Wolseley Area Before the Europeans. In Rising to the Occasion: A Community History of Wolseley, West Broadway and Armstrong’s Point. Ardythe Basham, ed. Robert A. Steen Memorial Community Centre, Winnipeg, pp. 2-7.

Tisdale, M. A. & E. Leigh Syms. 2000.
Native Ceramics Course Workbook 2000. Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, Winnipeg.

Pettipas, Katherine, Dr. 2001.
Review of Indian Fall: The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy by D'Arcy Jenish in Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 235-36.