1896.] Anthropology. 433 



like a great barn in strength, not inferior to ours. Lescarbot's map of 

 Montreal 1609. (Narr. and Crit. His. IV 304) shows the palisaded 

 Indian village of Hoclui . round-rootl'd n-ctan<;u- 



lar structures as in John Smith's cut, and in a map of Lake Ontario 

 and the Iroquois Country 1662-63, (from one of the Jesuit relations) 

 the Indian -. La Hon- 



tain suggests the same shape in his map of the lake region 1709 

 (Narr. Crit. Hist. IV 281-261-258) and several Indian lodges of the 

 circular bee-hive pattern surrounded by cultivated enclosures are given 

 by Champlain in his map of Plymouth Harbor 1605. (Narr. and Crit. 

 History IV 109). While not only the round bee-hive pattern, but 

 also the long rectangle with round rout', n< in Smith, are carefullv 

 drawn by the same explorer in his map of Nauset Harbor, 1604-05 

 (Land fall of Leif Erickson by Eben Norton Horsford p. 78). 



More interesting is the direct evidence of the Indians themselves. 

 The Lenape Stone, found in the Lenape region in 1872, and whose 

 authenticity after ten years observation I have been unable to doubt, 

 shows three pointed figures near trees, unmistakably referring to 

 tepee shaped habitations in the right of the drawing, and another fig- 

 ure similarly outlined on the reverse, (See the Lenape Stone or the 

 Indian and the Mammoth by H. C. Mercer, Putnam, N. Y. 1885). 

 Another stone figured by me from the same locality. (See Lenape 

 Stone p. 94) seems again to be inscribed with three tepee like forms. 



No less explicit is the tepee figure upon the so called Winnipese- 

 ogee Stone found on the shores of Lake Winnipeseogee. (See Abbotts' 

 Primitive Industry p. 362). George Copway (See Bureau of Ethnology 

 Report 1888-89 p. 493 and 242) shows us Ojibway drawings which 

 doubtless refer to the same pointed form of habitation. 



That the sides of the barn shaped structures when built as by the 

 Iroqois were invariably made of logs, is not to be supposed from the 

 statement above quoted from Wm. Penn., and the drawing by Captain 

 John Smith. All things considered, we have reason for supposing, 

 subject to correction from documentary investigation, that though the 

 barn shaped and round roofed rectangular structures were common, not 

 only the bee hive, but the true tepee form were in use by Indians 

 in the Pre-Columbian forest east of the Mississippi. 



Henry C. Mercer. 



