. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, . weel 1904 ARCH^OLOGICAL REPORT. 57 sen, Jack, about twenty, and a pretty little rag-a-muffin, about five years Joe in English, and Akeonam, in Blackfoot. We are within sight of adead tent, a tepee built on a hill, over a young man who died a few weeksago. There has been groat mortality among the Indians owing to measles,but it has passed away now. I am very sorry that I have not a camera with me, as there are manychJaracteristic pictures I could take of their mode of lifeWith kind regards, Yours very sincerely, Edith M. Curzon. In connect
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, . weel 1904 ARCH^OLOGICAL REPORT. 57 sen, Jack, about twenty, and a pretty little rag-a-muffin, about five years Joe in English, and Akeonam, in Blackfoot. We are within sight of adead tent, a tepee built on a hill, over a young man who died a few weeksago. There has been groat mortality among the Indians owing to measles,but it has passed away now. I am very sorry that I have not a camera with me, as there are manychJaracteristic pictures I could take of their mode of lifeWith kind regards, Yours very sincerely, Edith M. Curzon. In connection with the statement that as a rule the pictures[of this kind] are largely the result of imagination rather than fordepicting- the history of anything, it may be added that this viewis not accepted by the Rev. Dr. John Maclean (now editor of TheWesleyan, Halifax) who spent several years as a missionary amongthe Blackfoots. Dr. Maclean thinks it is yet possible to discoverthe story told by the pictograph on figure 81. Porcupine Quill 58 ARCH^OLOGICAL REPORT Until within the last few years there is said to have been onQuarry Point, Lake Couchiching, the northern extension of LakeSimcoe, a rock, on which were some Indian paintings. Mr. J. HughHammond, barrister, of Orillia, who takes much interest in all thingsconnected with the Rama Reserve people, of whom he is the trustedadviser, has kindly procured for the museum what purports to be acopy in quill-work of the rock paintings referred to. The work wasdone by Mesaquab (Jonathan Yorke), a Mississauga, on the RamaReserve, which includes Quarry Point, but as he was entirely de-pendent on his memory, and it is some years since the rock fell intothe water, considerable allowance must be made for the accuracyof his performance. The design is said to represent two Ojibwa warriors after the lastgreat battle fought with the Iroquois, the central figure being a Mo-hawk, or Canienga. Mesaquab asserts that the Ojibwas, coming fromth
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