Diamond Jenness Diamond Jenness was born in New Zealand and trained in anthropology at Oxford. He came to Canada in 1913 and did work across the country. He became head of the National Museum of Man (now the Canadian Museum of Civilization) in 1939. Read an excerpt from "The Saanich Indians of Vancouver Island" Read an excerpt from Faith of a Coast Salish Indian Sources: Diamond Jenness, "The Saanich Indians of Vancouver Island." Unpublished manuscript, Royal British Columbia Museum. No date [ca. 1930s], pp. 1-10; Diamond Jenness, The Faith of a Coast Salish Indian, ed. Wilson Duff. Anthropology in British Columbia Memoir 3 (Victoria: BC Provincial Museum, 1955), pp. 6-9.