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Neutral pottery occurring in the same region; occasional overhanging 
cornice-like rims; rarity of deeply constricted necks; and a surface either 
smooth, scarified, chequered, or with textile marking. The absence of 
earthworks and palisades indicates that the inhabitants were peaceable. 
Love of personal adornment is suggested by the combs, stone and bone 
pendants, probable bone wristlet, and shell and bone beads. That the 
inhabitants did some trading with other people appears from the presence 
of an ocean-shell bead. Certain objects were used in games and amuse- 
ments; a few others were probably religious paraphernalia. Only one 
stone pipe was discovered and the earthenware pipes, which are mostly of 
the monitor type, differ from most of those found at Iroquois sites else- 
where in Ontario. Decorative art is seen on pottery, bone awls, a bone 
comb, and earthenware pipes. The ornamentation on pottery is mostly 
geometrical, and the designs are both curvilinear and rectilinear. Decora- 
tion consisting of groups of simple elements occurs more commonly than 
complex designs composed of two or more different elements. One unusual 
design resembles a fret, another may have been intended to represent a 
bird, and a few probably represent human faces. In certain features the 
pottery decoration resembles Algonkian pottery, in others the probable 
Andaste pottery from Pennsylvania and Holmes’ “Northwestern Group” 
from Ohio and Illinois; a few designs resemble those on later Neutral 
pottery. Part of the ornamentation on an antler comb consists of a rarely 
used type of zigzag. The decoration of the pipes is of the most simple 
character. There are only a few carvings in the round, and only one 
possible life form modelled in clay. A few scattered human remains, but 
no graves, were found. The site is prehistoric, the inhabitants probably 
proto-Neutral, nearly on the same plane culturally as the later pre- 
European Neutrals, but showing certain distinctive differences in their 
earthenware pipes and in most of their pottery ornamentation. 
