This burial of a young dog was one of the six uncovered in the house pits of a mid-fourteenth-century ancestral Huron-Petun village on the east coast of Lake Huron, Ontario. In one instance, two pups had been placed in a pit and a pottery vessel put on top of the bodies. The burials must have had some religious significance, perhaps related to Iroquois belief that the spirit of a sacrificed dog could be used to send an urgent message to the Creator.
Courtesy: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada
