. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . 5. Human face effigy pipe with a deter- Fig. 6. Face on the preceding (enlarged, mined under-jaw. [13] 14 . HURON VILLAGE SITES. No. VI Animal Forms on Clay Pipes. These forms are often well made, and in some cases even the draughts-men and plastic workers of our own race could not have designed them withthe features better portrayed. The animal kingdom is represented by thewol
. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . 5. Human face effigy pipe with a deter- Fig. 6. Face on the preceding (enlarged, mined under-jaw. [13] 14 . HURON VILLAGE SITES. No. VI Animal Forms on Clay Pipes. These forms are often well made, and in some cases even the draughts-men and plastic workers of our own race could not have designed them withthe features better portrayed. The animal kingdom is represented by thewolf, beaver, deer, eagle, hawk, owl, heron or bittern and crane, coiledsnakes, frogs, and many others. There was an obvious tendency to choosethe biggest specimens in the animal tribes—the eagle and owl in the hawktribe (rapaces), the raven in the omnivorous (hornbill) tribe, the panther inthe cat tribe, the wolf and bear among the carnivora. Great things and por-tentous things commanded the attention of the Hurons in quite a humanway, small and insignificant birds and animals being, for the most part,beneath their notice. In this connection some questions will naturally arise—to what extentdo these animal for
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