Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . )ipc from site 23, Lot North 1/, 12,Con. 1, Fenelon Twp., Aictoria Co., Ont. Material, light-coloured grey slate. Thefragment consists of a portion of the bowl and the two front legs (which arcen bloc) clasping the frontal l)ar, Avhicb evidently extended to the chin. Thebowl hole shows irregular drilling as if done by a stone drill; the striae beingnot so uniform as those of a metal drill. Slots were evidently made in thisand on the outside of left fore leg are two long, shallow, narrow incisions. Theclaws are also shown by deep notches, 3 notches to
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . )ipc from site 23, Lot North 1/, 12,Con. 1, Fenelon Twp., Aictoria Co., Ont. Material, light-coloured grey slate. Thefragment consists of a portion of the bowl and the two front legs (which arcen bloc) clasping the frontal l)ar, Avhicb evidently extended to the chin. Thebowl hole shows irregular drilling as if done by a stone drill; the striae beingnot so uniform as those of a metal drill. Slots were evidently made in thisand on the outside of left fore leg are two long, shallow, narrow incisions. Theclaws are also shown by deep notches, 3 notches to each foot. This pipe wasevidently a well-finished Catalogue No. VIII. Xo. 7. 8,559. Victoria Memorial Museum. 62 AECH^OLOGICAL EEPORT. No. 71. IJeferring to this pipe which is (iii-ui-ed 011 pai^c (il. IJoport 1914:(the top figure), Mr. \A. .1. Wintcmberg oT tlic \i(t()rirt Mmiorial Museum,Ottawa, Ont., in a letter of June 10th, 1915, remarks that sonu of the lizardeffigy pipes represent animal forms. The pipe in question. . would moreproperly be called an otter or perliaps a mink pii)c. . that here inthe north mammals would be more often represented than lizards. Lizards aresuch unfamiliar objects even with us that unless there was some special religiousor superstitious regard for the animal, they Avould scarcely l)e carved on course, I am saying this without knowing whether lizards had a place in thefolklore of the Iroquoian and Algonkian peoples in northern Xorth the south, of course, where such reptiles are more often encountered theycould lie carved in stone and other materials, and those fou
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