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head seen in figure 11 is badly broken, but enough of it remains to show 
that it was well modelled. It seems abnormally wide as compared with 
the length, and this and the shape of the horns or ear tufts give the face 
a reniform outline. The eyes are formed by depressions of two different 
sizes; the smaller one probably representing the pupil. The mouth is 
represented by a shallow groove. There is a more or less rectangular 
depression above the beak and one in each horn or ear tuft, and below, 
on each side of the face, are two other, nearly vertical depressions, gradu- 
ated in size, which, with those in the horns, radiate slightly from each eye. 
A badly broken owl head, apparently of the same type as the one just 
described, has the eyes represented by deep, round cavities with a rounded 
prominence in the bottom, made by pressing into the clay an object with 
a hollow in the end. Surrounding each cavity is a large, impressed circle, 
which may have been intended to represent the eye disks. Oblique, linear 
depressions on both sides of the beak represent the mouth. The head in 
figure 12, with part of the beak and one of the horns missing, is the most 
naturally represented bird head found here. There is a hollow in the centre 
of the remaining horn. The eyes are represented by deep pits, flat at the 
bottom, and with rounded, vertical sides; radiating oval depressions, sur- 
rounding these cavities, represent the eye disks. 1 The beak is hooked; 
shallow oval depressions indicate the nostrils, and curved impressions the 
mouth ; the fine lines on top and part of the way down the sides of the beak 
probably represent the nasal tufts. 2 The face, with part of the beak 
missing, in figure 13, differs from the others described in having the eyes 
represented by more or less round, saucer-shaped depressions with a low, 
rounded eminence in the bottom; 3 in having the mouth open; and in having 
round instead of rectangular depressions around the face. The depressions 
in the horns are ovoid and conform more or less to the outline of the horns. 
There was probably also a bird head on another earthenware pipe 
(Cat. No. VIII-F-13137), and there may have been a tail on the broken 
edge on the opposite side of the bowl. 4 
A legless bird form, lacking the head and one of the wings, is seen 
on the bowl of the pipe in Plate XVI, figure 7. That it had a long beak, 
or perhaps wattles, is suggested by a long scar on the breast. The back 
is ridged, and on it, judging from what remains, there seems to have been a 
triangular space, bounded by deep grooves on all sides, half of which sloped 
to the right and the other to the left. At the smaller end of this space are 
four, short, transverse impressions. The feathers of the remaining wing, 
which is modelled in relief, are represented by impressed diagonal lines. 
The short tail suggests that this form represents an owl. 
The diagonal lines on the sides, and the fact that there is a luting 
scar on the front of the pipe in Plate XVI, figure 6, suggest that there was 
part of a bird form represented on this pipe, the diagonal lines probably 
indicating the wings. 
Smith, 2, PL LXVIII, fig. 5, showing an earthenware pipe from a site at lake Medad, Halton co., with 
the eye disks somewhat similarly represented. _ , 
! The nasal tufts are similarly indicated on bird heads on earthenware pipes from sites in New York (See Beau- 
champ, 2, fig. 140, Holmes, 2, PI. CLVII, first pipe in third row, and Skinner, 4, fig. 186) and on stone pipes from 
mounds of the Mississippi valley (See Squier and Davis, figs. 169, 177, 179, and 181), _ _ 
*See Boyle, 4, fig. 71, showing owl head on an earthenware pipe from a Tionontati site in Nottawasaga tp., Simcoe 
co., with the eyes similarly shown. 
♦Compare with the bird form on the earthenware pipe seen in Smith, 2, PI. LXVIII, fig. 2. 
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