56 RELICS OF THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA PIERS. 



the Lake Baptiste burying-ground, Ontario. Mr. Boyle speaks 

 of it as exceedingly rare. It is made of a soft " white-stone." 

 The animal whose form extends above the bowl and more than 

 half-way along the stem, he considers was probably intended to 

 represent a lizard. 



Mr. Boyle also figures another pipe (Report Canadian 

 Institute, session 1886-7, page 29,) which may be likened to our 

 specimen, although the resemblance, owing to the different po^i- 

 tion of the figure and the absence of a distinct bowl and stem, is 

 not nearly so great as in the two instances we have just given. 

 It was discovered at Milton, Hal ton County, Ontario. The 

 material of which it is for med is a light-gray stone, very soft 

 and porous, containing minute specks, probably micaceous, and 

 quite unlike anything in the geological formation of that pro- 

 vince. The cavities on the body and long tail, resemble those 

 on the neck of the Nova Scotian specimen ; they are probably 

 intended to represent spots of colour such as the aboriginal artist 

 had seen on the animal he imitated. Several lizards bear clearly- 

 defined spots of bright colour upon their bodies. Notwithstand- 

 ing the length of the snout, Mr. Boyle thought that the 

 resemblance of the head to that of a monkey was very striking. 

 I am rather of the opinion that, like the figures on other pipes 

 mentioned, the carving was intended to represent a lizard. 



Dr. Almon possesses another stone pipe (Fig. 98), which, 

 although most beautifully ornamented" and very symmetrical in 

 outline, is nevertheless of secondary interest, for the reason that 

 it is doubtless of comparatively modern manufacture. It was 

 purchased from a Micmac on the Dartmouth ferry-steamer. In 

 general appearance it closely resembles one found at Dartmouth 

 in January, 1870, described by me in a paper on the aboriginal 

 remains in the Provincial Museum (page 287), or another from 

 River Dennis, Cape Breton, which is figured in the plate 

 appended thereto. This form is considered by Dr. Patterson to 

 be the typical one adopted by our Indians. The bowl, somewhat 

 barrel-shaped, rises from a base, laterally flattened. In the 



