The Lake of Ojibwa Indians whose canoes plied the waters of Northern Ontario The generations ago left a record of rock art painting that is barely mentioned in their own oral tradition and only occasionally commented on by contemporary European missionaries and explorers. In recent years, the Ontario Heritage Foundation has been sponsoring the first serious archaeological analysis of the red ochre paintings that are scattered along the granite outcroppings above the lakes of the Quetico region west of Lake Superior. During our quest we have analyzed and recorded numerous rock paintings of artÃmals, birds and humans, and found a shelter apparently never used for human habitation but where rock art was used in ritual activity. 18 Archaeology the Painted Cave