Artifact Collection
Page 2: Atifacts from 370 year old Huron Indian Village, Ontario
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When I was about ten years old, my father who was an amatuer anthropologist and keen student of Native Indian art and mythology  took me along to a site north of Toronto which was being excavated by the University.  The site was a small Huron Indian village which consisted of a number of longhouses.  The village dated back to about 1630 and had been described in the journals of Samuel de Champlain.  At the time, the Huron Indians had a total population of just over 20,000 and lived in 18 to 25 pallisaded villages.  All that remained now were the dark impressions left in the soil where the firepits and wooden stakes had been.  A distance from the main excavation and down a small slope was the midden, where the Indians had dumped their broken pottery and other wastes (bones, burnt food, etc.)  These items were all found in the midden.
Pottery Piece showing interesting patterns.
Additional potsherds.
Potsherd showing evidence of having been in the fire.
Several fragments glued back together
   Pipe bowls
 Burnt food remains (most likely corn).
Beads
   Toy falseface masks (the left one has signs of having been in the fire)
Bone Fragment showing signs of having been cut.  Possibly for a tool or musical instrument?
Toys or markers used for games?
 
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