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Plate LXXVII 
Ontario 
Geometric and Animal For?ns Engraved on Marine Shell 
Figure 1. Rattlesnake engraved on shell. Probably post-European. From large bed of 
ashes, Sealey farm, Onondaga tp., Brant co., Ont. Neutral, Iroquoian Indian area. 
Collected by J. S. Heath. Cat. No. 20115 in Provincial Museum, Toronto; $ natural 
size. After Figure f, Plate XII, Boyle, Report, 1907, 1908, and Figure f, Plate XII, 
Wintemberg, Shell, 1907, 1908. Also illustrated in Figure 12, Boyle, Report, 1899. 
1900. Unique in Canada, but similar engravings of the rattlesnake on shell are founa 
in Tennessee. 
Figure 2. Disk made of tropical shell. Possibly post-European. Probably Seneca 
Iroquoian type. From farm of R. Garrow, near Penetanguishene, Simcoe co., Ont., 
or from King tp., York co., Ont. Huron, Iroquoian Indian area. Collected and 
presented by R. W. Large. In Provincial Museum, Toronto; i natural size. After 
Figure e, Plate X, Boyle, Report, 1907, 1908; and Figure e, Plate X, Wintemberg, 
Shell, 1907, 1908. Also illustrated in Figure 30, Boyle, Report, 1897-8, 1898; and 
Figure 54, Boyle, Report, 1903, 1904. 
Figure 3. Turtle form made of a piece of a shell, with rear end broken off and missing, 
from near the front pit on the left to the slight angle on the right. From mound, 
James Miller farm, Otonabee tp., Peterborough co. ? Ont. Algonkian Indian area. Col- 
lected by David Boyle. Cat. No. 14818 in Provincial Museum, Toronto; \ natural 
size. From Figure e in photograph by Harlan I. Smith, negative and lantern slide, 
Cat. No. 20179 in Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. Also illustrated in 
Figure 19, Boyle, Report, 1896-97, 1897; Figure a, Plate XIV, Boyle, Report, 1907, 
1908; and Figure a, Plate XIV, Wintemberg, Shell, 1907, 1908. 
Figure 4. Turtle form made of shell. Possibly post-European. Probably Iroquoian. From 
Barton tp., Wentworth co., Ont. Neutral, Iroquoian Indian area. Collected by 
C. A. Hirschfelder. Cat. No. VIII-F-14129 (986) (326) in Victoria Memorial Museum, 
Ottawa, Canada; \ natural size. 
