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Plate XLIY 
Manitoba 
Handle of Antler, Pendants of Shell , and Pottery 
Figure 1. Handle made of antler for a skin scraper chipped from stone. The design is 
apparently bilaterally symmetrical, although incisions were not counted. From 
Manitoba, probably Siouan area. Collected by James Kavanagh. Cat. No. 17158 
in Provincial Museum, Toronto. From photograph by Harlan I. Smith, negative 
and lantern slide, Cat. No. 20182 in Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada; 
approximately $ natural size. The circle and dot design is widely distributed, being 
found in Alaska and Africa. This type of handle is confined to the Plains. 
Figure 2. Pendant made of shell. From a mound near Westboume, Manitoba. Siouan 
Indian area; approximately % natural size. After No. 2, Figure a, Plate V, Mont- 
gomery, Prehistoric Man, 1908. 
Figure 3. Pendant made of marine shell. From “Calf mountain,” Manitoba. Siouan 
Indian area. Collected by Henry Montgomery. After Figure 6b, Montgomery, 
“Calf Mountain,” 1910. 
Figure 4. Fragment of the rim of a pottery vessel bearing design made by impressing 
twisted cord and pinching with finger nails before the vessel was fired. From Mound 
R, Sourisford, Manitoba. Siouan Indian area. Collected by W. B. Nickerson on 
Geological Survey, Canada, expedition, 1914. Cat. No. X-A-255 (1) in Victoria 
Memorial Museum; approximately \ natural size. Also illustrated in Figure 1, 
photograph, negative, Cat. No. 40417. Pottery has not been found in Canada west 
of the Rocky mountains. Compare with Iroquoian pottery, Figures 2, Plate LIV ; 
3, Plate LXI; and 4, 6, and 7, Plate LXII. 
Figure 5. Pottery vessel. From a mound near Sourisford, Manitoba. Siouan Indian 
area; approximately £ natural size. After Figure a, Plate III, Montgomery, Pre- 
historic Man, 1908. Pottery has not been found in Canada west of the Rocky moun- 
tains. 
Figure 6. Pottery vessel. From Mound R, Sourisford, Manitoba. Siouan Indian area. 
Collected by W. B. Nickerson on Geological Survey, Canada, expedition, 1914. Cat. 
No. X-A-257 (6) in Museum; approximately \ natural size. Pottery has not been 
found in Canada west of the Rocky mountains. 
