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of a diamond. Similar groups of circles on pottery from New York are 
enclosed with diamond-shaped figures of trailed lines (See Beauchamp, 2, 
Figures 67, 68, and Skinner, 4, Plates XXVII, XXVIII). 
Modelled representations of the human face in relief, or in the round, 
are seen in Plate IX, figure 26, Plate XV, figure 31, and Plate XVI, figures 
14 to 21. There seems also to have been a small human face in the middle 
of the semicircular part of the large crescent on an earthenware pipe (Cat. 
No. VIII-F-11077) , but it is so badly broken that it is impossible to get an 
idea how the eyes, nose, and mouth were represented. There are three 
other faces of the same type as those in Plate XVI, figures 18 and 20. Many 
of them are lifelike, although somewhat expressionless. Even the best 
(Plate XVI, figure 16) is probably not to be considered as a portrait, the 
only intention having been to produce a face. That in Plate XVI, figure 21, 
is rather squat; the one in figure 19, in the same plate, is grotesque and 
suggests that the maker had a sense of humor. 1 
Most of them are well modelled. That on the pot rim in Plate IX, 
figure 26, however, is inferior to that on some faces on Iroquoian pottery 
from Pennsylvania {See Wren, Plate 6, figures 1-5), but equals that on 
faces on rims from other Iroquoian sites in Ontario and in New York {See 
Beauchamp, 2, Figures 47, 50-53). Other crudely modelled faces are seen 
on the pipes in Plate XVI, figures 14, 15, and on the little head in Plate 
XV, figure 31. The modelling of faces on the other pipes, however, com- 
pares favourably with that on heads seen on pipes and pottery vessels 
from the southern states. 2 
The facial and other features are represented in various ways. The 
forehead of all the faces except those in Plate XV, figure 31, and Plate XVI, 
figure 20, is more or less naturally represented. The cheeks are mostly 
low (Plate XVI, figures 16, 18, 20), only one (Plate XVI, figure 21), show- 
ing the high cheeks characteristic of most Indian physiognomies. The ears 
are only a little more than suggested by lateral expansions of the face, with 
no attempt to bring out the natural shape or the details (See Plate XVI, 
figures 16, 18, 20, 21). 3 In four cases the ears are pierced, probably for 
the attachment of ornaments. 4 None has the hairy arches of the eyebrows 
represented in relief, as on a face from a pipe found in an Onondaga site 
in Jefferson county, New York (*See Skinner, 4, Figure 44) ; in fact, this 
feature is rarely shown on modelled faces elsewhere. The eyes are repre- 
sented either by means of oval bosses with a horizontal slit to indicate the 
eye-balls, 5 as on a face on a pipe from the site, in the White collection; or 
by roundish (Plate XVI, figure 14), oval (Plate XV, figure 31), oblong 
(Plate IX, figure 26, and Plate XVI, figure 18), or lenticular depressions 
(Plate XVI, figures 16, 21), a few of which are deep and crudely made, 
apparently with the rough end of a stick (Plate XVI, figure 17) ; and curved 
£ 1 See Boyle, 2, fig. 12, showing a similar face on a pipe from a Tionontati site in Simcoe county. 
*Few earthenware pipes from the south bear human faces, but they occur more often on earthenware dishes, 
especially those from Tennessee (See Thruston, Plate VI, two vessels in middle; Plate VIII, second and upper vessels 
in lower row; and Plate IX, large vessel in middle of lower row). 
3 The ears are similarly represented on an earthenware pipe from Louisiana (See Moore, 9, figs. 13-15, but they 
are more realistically treated on southern pottery (See Holmes, 2, Plates .XXlX-XXXII). 
k- ^Pierced ears are also seen on human faces from other Iroquoian sites in Ontario (See Boyle, 2, fig. 5, showing 
one from the Clearville (Neutral) site, Orford tp., Kent co.; 6, fig. 1, and 15, fig. 20, two from Tionontati sites in 
Nottawasaga tp., Simcoe co.'; 7, fig. 29, one from a site in Harvey tp., Peterborough co.; 10, fig. 2, one from the 
Sealey farm site, Brantford tp., Brant co.; and, 15, fig. 22, one from a Huron site in South Orillia tp,, Simcoe co.). 
K s The eyes are similarly represented on an earthenware pipe from a Huron site near Victoria Harbour, Simcoe 
co. (See Boyle, 8, fig, 12). 
