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There may have been either a bird or mammal head on the fragment 
of the stemless stone pipe seen in Plate XV, figure 47. The diagonal line 
with the claw-like end, on one of the flat sides of this pipe, if it was not 
an accidental scratch, may have represented a leg. The low, flattened, 
transverse ridge below the stem hole corresponds to the projection repre- 
senting the feet on stone bird pipes from elsewhere in Ontario {See Laidlaw, 
Figures 27-29, 32, 33) . 
There is what seems to be part of a turtle form from a broken earthen- 
ware pipe (Cat. No. VIII-F-13131). The head, all but one leg, the tail, 
and part of the carapace are missing. The remaining front foot is shown 
by a low, oblong projection, with the digits indicated by three short grooves. 
The carapace is covered with closely parallel, impressed diagonal lines. 
That it overhung the feet, as in nature, is suggested by a groove between 
it and the feet. 1 
It is surprising that so few representations of turtles were found here 
and also elsewhere at Iroquoian sites in Ontario and New York, especially 
when we consider the important place the turtle holds in the clan system 
of the Iroquois, 
The snake forms are seen on the fragments of earthenware pipes in 
Plate XVI, figures 1-3. The one in figure 2 has part of the head broken 
off and all ’but three of the coils are missing; the eyes, however, which are 
indicated by conical depressions, remain. The body tapers toward the 
bottom and the coils are separated from each other by deep, smooth grooves. 
The head, which projected above the edge of the pipe bowl as in other 
snake pipes from Iroquoian sites {See Boyle, 5, Figure 6), is not expanded 
or abruptly widened at the neck as in poisonous snakes {See Holmes, 2, 
Plate CLV, figure a) with which the people here seem to have been 
acquainted. That the rattlesnake was known is shown by the piece of a 
pipe in figure 3, which has what is evidently intended for the rattle at the 
end of the tail. There are three other fragments of snake forms; the one 
illustrated in figure 1 shows two snakes coiled around the bowl, with the 
tails straightened out along the stem. The other two, both fragments of 
stems (one of which is Cat. No. VIII-F-13792 and the other in the White 
collection), also bear two snake tails, both of which end rather abruptly. 
Two snake forms are seen on the earthenware pipe (also in the White 
collection) illustrated in Plate XVI, figure 25 a, b\ the remains of one of 
the eyes can be seen on the head in 6. 
The two heads in Plate XVI, figures 9 and 10, referred to above as 
probably being those of birds, may also have been intended to represent 
snake heads; Boyle (1:23) considered a similar head as probably repre- 
senting that of a snake. 
All of the snake forms have the scales represented either by a row 
of X-like figures or by diagonal cross-hatching, in which respect they are 
like one from Lanark county {See Boyle, 5, Figure 6), and another from 
an Iroquois site near Baldwinsville, New York {See Beauchamp, 2, Figure 
166). The rattles on the specimen in figure 3 are marked with a single, 
impressed line across the longer diameter of the oval, with six short lines 
across it at right angles. 
*Compare this with another turtle form on an earthenware pipe from an Iroquois site in New York, in Parker, 
6, Plate 53, fig. 9. 
