530 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Fic. 738.—Ottawa pipe stem 
Upon each side of the stem are spaces 
corresponding in length and position to 
those upon the opposite side. In the lower 
space of the stem is a drawing of a bear, 
indicating that the two persons in the 
corresponding space on the opposite side 
belong to the bear gens. The next upper 
figure is that of a beaver, showing the 
three human figures to belong to the 
beaver gens, while the next to this, the 
eagle, means that the opposite persons are 
members of the eagle gens. The upper 
figure is that of a lodge which contains 
a council fire, shown on the opposite side. 
The signification of the whole is that 
two members of the bear gens, three mem- 
bers of the beaver gens, and three mem- 
bers of the eagle gens have united and 
constitute a society living in one lodge, 
around one fire, and smoke through the 
same pipe. 
teference may also be made to remarks 
by Prof. Dall (d) upon the use of masks by 
associations or special classes. 
SECTION 2. 
DAILY LIFE AND HABITS. 
Fig. 759, printed from the Kejimkoojik 
rocks, in Nova Seotia, represents two In- 
dians in a canoe following a fish to shoot 
it. This is not a pure example of the class 
of totemic designs. Both Indians in the 
canoe have paddles in which the device 
resembles the Micmac tribal device, but 
in that the hunters pursue a deer and not 
a fish and the canoe is “humpback.” The 
Passamaquoddy tribal pictographic sign 
in which a fish is followed, requires both 
Indians to have paddles, and, it may be 
understood that the two Indians in the- 
canoe are Passamaquoddy, but in the fig- 
ure one of them has laid aside his paddle 
and is shooting at the fish with a gun, 
which departs from the totemie device, 
and also shows that the drawing was made 
sinee the Indians of the region had ob- 
