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Snake forms are not rare on earthenware pipes from Iroquoian sites in 
Ontario, and New York, a few of them differing from the Roebuck speci- 
mens in having the tail coiled around both bowl and stem, 1 and others 
having the scales represented by roundish depressions instead of cross- 
hatching (See author, 9, Plate XIII, figure 14). 
The snout-like, pointed, angular lips, with circles for eyes, seen in 
Plate X, figures 18 and 20, may have been intended to represent the heads 
of frogs, which are seldom depicted on pottery even of other cultures 
(Compare with Holmes, 2, Plate LXXIII, figures a and c, showing two 
examples from Florida). 
The only fish form found here is seen in Plate XVI, figure 5 a , b. The 
tip of the upper and lower jaws and part of the top of the head are broken 
off, and the broken part of the upper jaw has been rubbed smooth. The eyes 
are shown on top of the head by two conical depressions. The two curved 
lines on the sides of the head probably represent the pre-maxillaries and 
maxillaries with their connecting skin, and the gill cover is well shown. 
There are twelve, short, transverse notches on the back, which probably 
represent the dorsal fin; the raised portion at the end may be intended 
for the soft part of this fin, although it may also have been finished off 
abruptly to allow the mouthpiece of the pipe to be made. The pectoral fins 
are not represented, but the ventral fins are shown by rounded projections, 
and between them is a rounded prominence which w*as probably intended 
to represent the anal fin. The scales are indicated by diagonal cross- 
hatching. On the ventral side of the fish (See figure 6), the wrinkles in 
the skin of the jugular region are shown by six, short, transverse lines, and 
behind them the mucous cavities are indicated by three rows of small, 
semicircular depressions in pairs, the two outer rows consisting of five and 
six pairs of impressions and the middle row of two. The large, central 
depression probably represents the anus, which should have been placed 
behind the ventral fins. The fish represented is probably one of the sun- 
fish family. 
The two raised forms of different widths (there were probably two 
others) , covered with cross-hatching, seen on the fragment of an earthen- 
ware pipe in Plate XVI, figure 4, may also have represented fish. 
Although a few specimens carved in stone have been found, 2 fish forms 
are seldom modelled on earthenware pipes, the only other modelled 
examples known to the w T riter being a very fragmentary specimen from an 
early Huron site on lot 60, front range, Somerville township, Victoria 
county, Ontario, and a whole specimen from near Chattanooga, Tennessee 
(See Rau, Figure 349). 
Ornamentation in relief, like that on the pot rim fragments in Plate V, 
figures 22, 23, 25-27, may, as Daw r son thinks (3:90), represent ears of corn, 
the rows of transverse linear impressions being intended to represent the 
kernels. The grooves between the ridges are wide and deep and in some 
cases filled with parallel, vertical lines. 
1 See Boyle, 4, fig. 70, showing one from a site on lots 19 and 20, Gull River range, Bexley tp,, Victoria co., Ont., 
and Beauchamp, 2, fig. 162, one from a site near West Bloomfield, New York. 
s See West, fig. 166, showing one from Wisconsin, and Moorehead, vol. II, fig. 480, one from the Hopewell group 
of earthworks in Ohio. 
