. 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 . 23 It has often proved puzzling to account for the presenceof numerous little brooch-pins (like those here figured) in ossu-aries. The specimen of cloth represented shows us the use thatwas, at least in some cases, made of them. Apparently the whole. Fig. 7. skirt or body, or perha| s the whole of a garment, was adorned in thisway. Although all are now coated more or less with
. 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 . 23 It has often proved puzzling to account for the presenceof numerous little brooch-pins (like those here figured) in ossu-aries. The specimen of cloth represented shows us the use thatwas, at least in some cases, made of them. Apparently the whole. Fig. 7. skirt or body, or perha| s the whole of a garment, was adorned in thisway. Although all are now coated more or less with verdigris, themetal is white. The verdigris may, in part, be owing to the presenceof a small copper vessel that was found beside them in the grave. 24 The fabric to which they are fastened is a coarse linen and ofbrown color. It was found alonor with the crosses already mentioned,and was procured for the museum by the Rev. Fr. Laboreau of Pene-tanguishene. George E. Laidlaw, of Balsam Lake, has kindly jDcrmitted me toprint from a letter to him the following comments on the brooches byCharles Stuart, Chief Factor of the Hudsons Bay Co. , Port Hope, Jan. 2, 1892. These brooches (Fourth Archaeological Report, pages 66-7),were in stock as articles of trade in the Hudsons Bay storeat Grand Lac, Upper Ottawa, when I entered the service in 1840—afew of the large ones were still remaining when I retired in 1874. Iam under the impression that they were introdu
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