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portion below this being solid. The bowl is polished inside, and 

 ornamented about the top by a series of transverse lines. 



The well-known platform pipes of the West and many other 

 localities are not common here, but now and then a specimen is 



Fig. 8. 



found. Fig. 7 gives one of the best of these. It is of a very 

 pretty, light yellow stone, well polished. The opening through 

 which to draw the smoke is at A, and this is so small that it is 

 most probable that no other stem than that afforded by the base 

 itself was used. The platform is nearly three inches long, and 

 the bowl is an inch and a quarter high. The bowl of this pipe 

 differs from that of most of those found here in that it bears cir- 

 cular strife, and was evidently worked out with a drill. 



Pipes of a more modern form than those described, though 

 there is no reason to consider them as actually more recent, are 

 not uncommon among our speci- 

 mens. The finest example of this 

 class is that shown in Fig. 8, and 

 it is very elegantly finished. The 

 material is a dark, clouded gyp- 

 sum, hard enough to take an ex- 

 cellent polish. The outside of 

 the bowl was ornamented, like 

 that of Fig. 4, by inlaid pieces of 

 stone, the excavations for which 

 are evident in the figure. There 

 can be no doubt in this case that 



the cavities were intended not for ornament, but to receive some 

 different material, since they are left in an unfinished state, while 

 the rest of the pipe is unusually well finished. The bowl is pol- 



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