1890.] A Pictograph from Nova Scotia. 997 
In trying to discover the meaning of this representation I have 
not been able to satisfy myself that its significance has been cor- 
rectly, or at least satisfactorily, interpreted. It seems improbable 
that it was intended to represent a head-dress such as have been 
taken from the skulls of Indians which have been exhumed at 
Micmac PICTOGRAPH, WITH PROBLEMATICAL HEAD-DRESS. 
certain points on the neighboring coast of Maine. While in form 
it distantly resembles the pointed caps which the Micmacs and 
Passamaquoddies wore in recent times, it seems but a rude rep- 
resentation of such, and one which an Indian would hardly have 
sketched in the relative form and size represented. 
