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One of the most remarkable things about this specimen remains to be 

 described, for it is not shown in the cut. The native workman, for some 

 reason, began drilling the hole for the stem at the rear end of the curved 

 base, so that the nose of the animal would be /row the smoker, but, by 

 accident, the under side of the material chipped out. Too much labor 

 had been expended on the specimen to throw it away. lie therefore 

 made a neat plug of the same material, stopped up the hole with it, 

 and then drilled a hole, as is almost invariably the case, in the front end, 

 so the animal would face the smoker. The right front corner of the 

 curved base is broken off, the fracture beginning at the stem hole, and, 

 it may be, that this other hole was an attempt to repair the pipe after 

 it was broken, and that, when the artist chipped out the lower side of 

 the hole, he gave up the work and plugged up the partially drilled hole. 

 Whatever may have been his object this neatly fitted plug is another 

 proof of the skill of the workman. 



The other pipe taken from the same mound is no less perfect. It rep- 

 resents the common hard-shell turtle of the American rivers, as shown 

 in Fig. 5 . 



Fig. 5. Tur le pipe, from Naples, HI. 



The cut shows but faintly the beauty of this specimen — the nostrils, 

 the head partially drawn back, the consequent fold of skin in the rear 

 of the skull, the paddle like feet, the claws, the tail folded around and 

 against the body on the underside of the rear of the shell — all are per- 

 fect. In one of the eye-holes is a copper bead rei)resenting the eye ball, 

 the other one being lost. 



Professor Baird pronounces this turtle pipe to be made of catlinite. 

 There has been some question whether any articles made of this sub- 

 stance have been fonnd in any locality of undoubted antiquity; the 

 shape, however, is precisely that of the other mound pipes. There is 

 no question as to the antiquity of the specimen, however. 



Judged from the figure on p. 423, of '■'■Flint Chips " of a turtle pipe, 

 found in the mounds of Ohio, by Squier and Davis, the Naples specimen 

 is far superior to that one in fidelity to nature. The copper ax, Fig. 10 



