. 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 . ghter depictedon the pipes. 12 HURON VILLAGE SITES. No. 12 As examples of this class of pipes, here are three representative speci-mens. The first is very highly decorated. Eight vertical slots are arrangedalong the forehead, the last outer slot at each side being a little lower thanthe others, and evidently intended to represent ears, or the ornaments at-tached thereto. The bo
. 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 . ghter depictedon the pipes. 12 HURON VILLAGE SITES. No. 12 As examples of this class of pipes, here are three representative speci-mens. The first is very highly decorated. Eight vertical slots are arrangedalong the forehead, the last outer slot at each side being a little lower thanthe others, and evidently intended to represent ears, or the ornaments at-tached thereto. The boy who found it (in Oro Township) called it an IndianChief, and the elaborate ornamentation certainly does suggest the the ears are indicated, the other knobs on the top (one of which had beenrubbed off) evidently indicate hair knobs—, some kind of headdress. Thisis a somewhat common representation in Huron portraits of human this connection we may also recall the fact that some Algonquin neighborsof the Tobacco Nation were called Chevaux Releves by Champlain, fromtheir prevailing fashion of wearing their hair, and the name Huron, itself,is said to come from their style of wearing the Indian Chief Pipe. (Front view.) Fig. 2. Indian Chief Pipe. (Side view. The next pipe of this class is a veritable souvenir of Sleepv specimen may not indicate good humor or laughter, but a war-whoop, orperhaps a sleepy yawn. In any case, it is the effort of an artist who evidentlybelonged to the impressionist school. Pipes of this kind are not by any meansrare in the Huron country. The third specimen has the physiognomy of an Indian who, if not awarrior, had at any rate a face so bold as to make the most courageous of usshudder when we look at his portrait. His grim visage has a likeness to theOld Man of the Mountain, whose face we are called upon to see in the profileof a high, rocky cliff in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. His Dant-esque features h
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