146 michelson: an archeological note 



sometimes of twenty together, resembling those about Cape York 

 in North Greenland and about the mouth of the Mackenzie and 

 westward. These round houses he considers to represent a later 

 migration or period; in fact, in one instance he found the 

 ruins of the round house within the remains of a larger rect- 

 angular house. The stone lamps found in these round houses 

 have always a partition wall, as among some of the far west- 

 ern Eskimo, to separate the oil from the blubber. Other objects 

 found, obtained from whaling ships, would indicate a period 

 not earlier than 1700. The modern Greenland house type is 

 also rectangular, except in the extreme north. In the same 

 neighborhood he found also the remains of a great circular struc- 

 ture, of the type of the assembly house of the Alaskan Eskimo. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. — An archeological note. Truman Michel- 

 son, Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Squier and Davis in their Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi 

 Valley, pages 249, 250, discuss a gray sandstone pipe now depos- 

 ited in the museum of the Historical Society of New York. They 

 show quite clearly that this is the original of the drawing by 

 Choris in his Voyage Pittoresque; and they demonstrate that there 

 must be some mistake as to the provenience of this pipe, for there 

 are no ancient tumuli in Connecticut. The purpose of this note 

 is to elucidate this last point. I call attention to the fact that 

 the Sauk pipe shown in the plate at the end of volume 2 of Bel- 

 trami's Pilgrimage belongs to the same culture as the one shown 

 in figure 149, page 249, in the work of Squier and Davis. I have 

 seen a photograph of the original of the latter, and it is far closer 

 to the Sauk pipe than the drawing indicates. If the drawing of 

 Beltrami is no closer to the original than is that of Squier and 

 Davis to its original, it is possible that the originals of both are 

 the same. Even if they are not the same, I think the above will 

 have made clear that the provenience of the pipe shown in the 

 work of Squier and Davis must be the upper Mississippi region, 

 near the Rock river, where the Sauk had their principal encamp- 

 ment when Beltrami visited their country, viz., 1823. 



