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for the beak of a bird, and if this is true we have two animal 

 carvings, such as they are, from this region. 



In some respects the most interesting of all our pipes is that 

 shown in Fig. 5. Its form is quite peculiar, but the chief impor- 

 tance consists in the carved human faces, one on each side of the 

 top, one of which the figure shows. As may be seen at the base, 

 the pipe is oval in section, the transverse diameter being an inch 

 and a half. The cavity is unusually large and is about three 

 fourths of an inch deep. The stem opening is seen on one side of 

 the figure near the middle, and is about as large as an ordinary 

 pencil. The whole height is over two inches. The faces are in 

 rather bold relief, and of the form seen in the figure ; the face on 

 the side not shown is very nearly like that shown. As the figure 

 shows, there are two lines, one from each side of the nose. Do 

 these indicate streaks of paint, or are they intended to represent 

 a mustache and therefore a European face? At the base, which is 

 flat, there is, just below the place where the stem entered, a small 

 hole, as if to enable the owner to attach a thong for suspending 

 the pipe when not in use. The material is very dark steatite. 

 The specimen was found on Grand Isle in Lake Champlain. 

 Only one other specimen having upon it the carving of a face 

 has been found in the Champlain Valley ; this is a pipe of oval 



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section and in general a bag or pouch-like form, bearing in full 

 relief on the edge of the bowl a small but distinctly marked 

 head. Singularly, this face also has lines under the nose, which 

 may, as in the pipe figured, indicate by the mustache a European. 

 A very regularly shaped and beautifully polished specimen 

 is that shown in Fig. G. It is three and a half inches long and 

 an inch in diameter at the top. The opening for the stem is at 

 the point marked A, and this is at the bottom of the bowl, the 



