This ancestor is a double-headed birdstone.This birdstone is defined by a sloped rectangular body and dual head feature. This relative is red-brown in colour with brown and green marbling. One head has a recent chip on the tip of its beak, while its counterpart does not. This ancestor has a hole on both of its necks. Currently, this ancestor resides the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The term birdstone is a legacy of earlier archaeological work and does not consider the full variety in shape and functionality these relatives may have had within Indigenous communities. We invite Great Lakes nations to help us improve our understanding of how to identify and name these relatives. Birdstones have been found and collected from various contexts including hearths inside houses, in fields, and burial contexts. To the best of our knowledge, none of the birdstones in GRASAC’s Knowledge Sharing Platform come from burial contexts.

This ancestor was uncovered in what is now Simcoe County, West Gwillimbury Ontario. It is difficult to know the cultural origin of this ancestor, as the maker could have travelled long distances and the stone's source is often unknown.

Information was provided by Dr. Tiziana Gallo, Rebanks Fellow, Ontario Archaeology, Royal Ontario Museum.