. 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 . evidentlya village of considerable importance. Jas. Davis, now of OrilliaTownship, cultivated the west half of lot 4 for a term of years,and the part of the site on his land was used by the Davis familyas a garden on account of the great richness of the soil. To Mr,Davis and familv I am indebted for aid in my researches at thissite, as well as at other places. They readily ga&l
. 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 . evidentlya village of considerable importance. Jas. Davis, now of OrilliaTownship, cultivated the west half of lot 4 for a term of years,and the part of the site on his land was used by the Davis familyas a garden on account of the great richness of the soil. To Mr,Davis and familv I am indebted for aid in my researches at thissite, as well as at other places. They readily ga<ve me several relicswhich they found, and these were sent by me to the ProvincialMuseum. The public spirit shown by them is highly commendable. 20 A list of the relics (with their catalogue numbers) is here given,as they are typical of a Huron village. The preponderance ofbone relics is worthy of note in connection with this purely Huronsite. From Jas. Davis : A grotesquely modelled blackclay pipe (6920), this fine specimen is fully de-scribed at p. 51 of the Archaeological Report for1896; the illustration is herewith reproduced. Stone axe (16,332);clay pipes (16,336), (16,337); a toy, or miniature, pipe. was found by a member of the Davis family; (it is described andfigured at page 45 of the Archaeological Report for 1898,bone chisel (16,920); pointed bone (16,921); arrowhead,, twoimperfect bone awls, beavers tooth, blue glass bead (European),and two imperfect soapstone specimens (all 17,824). From NeilMcNevin, the owner of the land, I received : Bone awl or needle(7,916); bone chisel (16,898). The only articles of European manu-facture reported as having been found here were an iron toniahawk, found by Mr. McNevin, and the blue glass bead above-men-tioned. The village thus obviously belonged to an early pottery ware, of which the pipe, No. 6,920, is a specimen, isnot very common on Huron sites. It is said to have been producedby double burning, or kilning.
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