It's hard to know what all of those creatures are supposed to be.
Baines puts them all in a section called "zoomorphics".
Some are clearly birds, or dogs.
There are others Baines describes as "dog-like animals with top-knots, tails, tongues, legs, and toes with claws".
A Gaelic speaker many years ago described the "Celtic beasts" engraved on pipes as
each-uisge, that is, water-beasts, what we would call sea-serpents. But things like the Loch Ness Monster aren't "serpents" but more like mammals.
Here's the
each-uisge or Celtic beast on a friend's old set of Henderson pipes
Originally Posted by OC Richard
It's hard to know what all of those creatures are supposed to be.
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