THE EEMAINS OP CITIES OP THE STONE AGE. 97 



bodies of the sick. On the other hand, the Micmac 

 Indians of Nova Scotia sometimes used tobacco pipes 

 made of birch-bark rolled in the form of a cone, and 

 which of course are perishable. 



The pipes of old Hochelaga were mostly of clay, 

 and of many and sometimes elegant patterns. Some 

 were very plain and small, others of elegant trumpet 

 or cornucopia form, and some ornamented with rude 

 attempts to imitate the human face. While the men 

 were the smokers, the women seem to have exhausted 

 their plastic skill in furnishing their lords with the 

 means of indulging their taste for the narcotic. 

 Schoolcraft has figured pipes used by the Iroquois and 

 Eries precisely similar to those of the Hochelagans. 

 Those of the mound-builders were peculiar (Fig. 10, 

 p. 54), but it is curious, and probably an evidence of 

 ancient intercourse, that stone pipes of the mound- 

 builders' type are occasionally, though rarely, found 

 in Canada. I have seen a broken specimen from 

 Hopkins Island, near St. Regis, where many Indian 

 remains are found. In addition to jars and pipes, the 

 only frequent objects of earthenware are small discs, 

 perforated in the centre and crenated at the edge. 

 They may have served as an inferior kind of wampum, 

 or beads, or perhaps for the playing of some game of 

 chance. Similar clay beads found in Sweden are 

 described by Nilsson as belonging to the pre-historic 

 times of Scandinavia. 



It has been said of the oldest Stone age, or Palaeo- 

 lithic age of Europe, that no remains of earthenware 



H 



