. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, . meter. After the eye and mouth-pieces have been attached,the intervening spaces on the face are filled up with short plaitedmaterial of the same kind. The nose is made separately, and eon- * Seven boys in husk masks * * * enter. Head man speaks, and while he does so the dancers are performing an-tics among the people on the floor—shaking rattles and making , subduedsounds with their mouths. * * * When the Head man ceases to sneak the masked boys give the Huskin^Dance. Archaeological Report, Ontario, 1898, p. 87. An old Indian on the reserve informed
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, . meter. After the eye and mouth-pieces have been attached,the intervening spaces on the face are filled up with short plaitedmaterial of the same kind. The nose is made separately, and eon- * Seven boys in husk masks * * * enter. Head man speaks, and while he does so the dancers are performing an-tics among the people on the floor—shaking rattles and making , subduedsounds with their mouths. * * * When the Head man ceases to sneak the masked boys give the Huskin^Dance. Archaeological Report, Ontario, 1898, p. 87. An old Indian on the reserve informed me during the winter of 1898,that masks of this kind were of much earlier origin, than were those of wood. I 1904 ARCH/l<:OLOGICAL REPORT. 59 sists of a small buncli of husk-leaves tied up in a large leaf, and fas-tened to its place at three points by strings. The lower fastening isdone so as to be out of sight. The mask, of which a diagram is given here, was worn at manydances during several years, by a leading man among the Fig. 83. Since this was written we have acquired what is, in some respects,a more ingeniously made husk musk, the nose of which is formed bya continuation of the plait-work used to make the eyes. The VVixoxa Stoxk. In a new country, such as ours is, the records of two or threehundred years take us into the period of our ancient history, andeven the occurrences of last century possess a halo of anti(iuity. 1776is an important date in the history of Great Britain as well as ofNorth America—to Canadians scarcely less than to the people ofthe United States, the events of that time meant nationality. Settle-ment in Upper Canada, but wholly along the frontier, became active,mainly by the arrival of contingents and individuals from the terri- 60 ARCH^OLOGICAL REPORT tory of the newly organized Government, and among the districts •,then occupied by the immigrants was the tract forming the westerntownships on the south shore of Lake Ontario. In
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