Mo. Bot, Garde: 
THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST 
A PICTOGRAPH FROM NOVA SCOTIA. 
BY J. WALTER FEWKES. 
N the course of some studies of the language of the Passa- 
maquoddies, made last spring, I was shown by Mrs. W. Wal- 
lace Brown, of Calais, Maine, an interesting collection of “squeezes” 
of Micmac pictographs from Fairy Lake, New Grafton, Nova 
Scotia. The adornment of the head of several of these interested 
me considerably, as it seems to impart information in regard to the 
manners and customs of the Indians who probably made these 
figures. The cut which is here given is an exact reduction of the 
squeeze of one of the pictographs to which I refer! The original 
is remarkable in several particulars, but more especially in regard 
to the strangely-formed, &ap-like figure on the head. 
The pictograph considered in this paper is supposed to be an 
old one, and to have been made by an Indian, probably of the 
Micmac tribe. Several of the squeezes in the collection appear 
to have been made after the white man, either by Indians or by 
the white men themselves. There are representations of ships or 
vessels with sails, which would point to a modern origin, and one 
of a human figure with a gun, which cannot antedate the advent of 
the whites, but there are still others which are so closely allied to 
other Indian pictographs found elsewhere that they are probably 
1 My figure is an dt copy of the squeeze with all its imperfections. I have never 
seen the pictograph itself and cannot say whether the breaks in the lines, especially on 
the body and hair, exist in the original or not. It look as if the squeeze was imperfect 
at these points. 
