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Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, No.17-20
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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- and several pieces of corn cob, withthe corn still intact, burnt like charcoal, and two clay pipes on the side of the pit.*In all my digging I never found a trace of the white mans art; no iron, or copper,or any implement reseml)ling the work of the white man. It is my belief that thetribe wliieli inhabited the Old Fort were cannibals, as I found a large quantity of
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human bones, chiefly legs and arm bones and skulls, in the ash licaps, mixed withthe bones of animals. The long bones were always broken lengthwise, as thoughto take out the marrow. The skulls were always broken. If they were notcannibals, I think the bones would have been buried and left unbroken. I havedug in several mounds since, aronnd tlic Pond Mills, and along the river bank, butI found no human bones. * Without doubt the pit mentionod l.y Mr. Sonley was the place where the Indiancorn was dried and charred before beiu<;- Ijuried for future use as a food supply for tlwtribe, and which was also placed in the burial mounds of the dead for sustenance on theirway to the happy hunting: grounds.—TVoolverton. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EEPORT. 51

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