[ganong] stone medallion OF LAKE UTOPIA 85 



The London Illustrated News for July 16, 1864 (Vol. 45, pp. 78-9) 

 contains an article, illustrated by a fair woodcut of the stone, entitled 

 "Indian Sculpture found near Lake Utopia, Charlotte County, New 

 Brunswick", whereof the essential parts here follow: 



We are indebted to Mr. C. C. Ward, of St. John, New Brunswick, for the follow" 

 ing account of a curious specimen of Indian sculpture, which is represented by our 

 Engraving. It is a basso-relievo, cut in red granite, of an oval shape, 21 in. long, 

 18 in. wide, and \\ in. thick. Although much worn and defaced by time and the 

 weather, it still retains evidence of having been done by a bold and skilful hand. 

 It was found, in the month of November last, at the foot of a precipice of red granite, 

 about a quarter of a mile from the western shore of Lake Utopia, in Charlotte 

 County, New Brunswick. When it was shown to the Indians who frequent the 

 neighbourhood, they at once pronounced it to be the portrait of a chief, and said 

 it was very likely that the chief himself was buried near the spot. They thought 



it was many hundred years old The Indians who have seen it are 



quite at a loss to account for the fashion and the quantity of the hair represented 

 on the head, since from time immemorial it was customary for the Indians to shave 

 or pluck out all the hair with the exception of the scalp-lock. And although the 

 shape of the head and cast of the features represented on the stone are decidedly 

 Indian, there is an Egj^ptian character about the whole which suggests some curious 



ethnological speculations The tribe of Indians now living at Lake 



Utopia are the Passamaquoddys, descendants of the old Delaware stock, who for 

 generations have made that locality their favorite haunt. These Passamaquoddys 

 are very skilful in their representations of the beaver and other animals; and we 

 have seen some very beautiful specimens, sculptured in bas-relief, on the bowls of 

 stone pipes. These figures were anatomically correct in drawing, and would do 



credit to a professional artist The sculptured stone is the property 



of Mr. A. J. Wetmore, treasurer at St. George's, who kindly placed it at Mr. Ward's 

 disposal for the purpose of making a drawing for this Journal. 



Mr. C. C. Ward here mentioned was a well known sportsman 

 and artist, brother of Clarence Ward, aforementioned. Lake Utopia 

 and neighbouring parts were favourite hunting grounds of his, as 

 shown by his sporting sketches in Scribners Monthly, 1878-80, in 

 one of which, February, 1878 (reprinted in Mayer's Sport ivith Gun 

 and Rod, New York, 1883, I, 181) he again mentions, with a cut, 

 "a stone medallion having the full-sized head of an Indian sculptured 

 upon it". The final sentence of the above quotation shows that he 

 saw the stone while it was still in Mr. Wetmore's possession, and there- 

 fore within a month or two of the time it was found. 



Another record published much later belongs in reality almost 

 as early. In the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1881 

 (published 1883, pp. 665-671) is an article "A sculptured stone found 

 in St. George, New Brunswick", by I. [not J.] Allen Jack, of St. John. 

 It is illustrated by a fair drawing of the stone and an excellent map 

 of Lake Utopia and vicinity marking the place where the stone was 

 found. A synopsis of the article is in The Canadian Indian, I, 1891, 



