Ontario Sessional Papers, 1901, . bled-uphuman figure, in which the knees and elbows were brought together, the armsbeing represented in low relief extending to the face, which we always findwith a long muzzle-like nose and mouth, and the head terminating in a bluntcone. Modifications of this occur, but they are rare, and never show anydegree of advancement in the treatment of the body and limbs, although thehead and face may be greatly superior. Only on one clay pipe has an attempt Fig. 22-1 dia. 190O ] ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT. 21 been made to show fingers, of which there are bat three
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1901, . bled-uphuman figure, in which the knees and elbows were brought together, the armsbeing represented in low relief extending to the face, which we always findwith a long muzzle-like nose and mouth, and the head terminating in a bluntcone. Modifications of this occur, but they are rare, and never show anydegree of advancement in the treatment of the body and limbs, although thehead and face may be greatly superior. Only on one clay pipe has an attempt Fig. 22-1 dia. 190O ] ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT. 21 been made to show fingers, of which there are bat three to each hand, andanything like even a distant imitation of feet is very unusual. As with the child, the head is everything in piimitive art, and as withthe child, there is no attempt at portraiture. Even among Mexican specimens, and they are numerous, it is not claimedthat any of the big-nosed carvings in stone, or modelings in clay were ever in-tended to look like any body in particular so far as features are concerned. Two Stone Fig. 23-J to have been left unfinished The sandstone pipe bowl representedin this engraving is unique in designNothing like this style of decoration ex-ists on any other object of stone or clay inthe museum. The lines are deeply cutiand with some approach to regularity-Powerfully imaginative observers professto see something symbolic in the work—they think there must be some hiddenmeaning in the rectangular and triangularfigures, but the same may be saidof any other pattern we do not under-stand. In some respects this pipe-headA small hole about one-fourth of an inch deep has been bored in the middle of the lower end as if to unite with another from one of the edges, but the latter has not been made. It is from Bexley Township, and forms part of the Laidlaw collection. The crouched or seated position was the one usuallychosen when the human figure was used as a pattern in pipe-making, no doubt partly because of its compressedness,
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