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represented; there the tool marks remain quite distinct. The wiugs 

 are folded, and the feet are represented as drawn up under the body. 



Gen. A. L. Pridemore, of Lee County, Virginia, has a specimen of 

 this character which weighs 3 pounds 2 ounces, which was found under 

 1;-) feet of soil in a railroad cut in 1889, and which he thinks represents 

 an osprey. Another specimen belonging to him represents a duck, and 



Fig. 66. 



STONE PIGEON PIPE. 



Decatur County. Tennessee. 



Cat. No. 58853, U.S.N. M. Collected by W. M. Chirk. 



was found twenty years ago in an Indian grave. (}uite a number of 

 pipes of this type are figured by Thruston among the antiquities of 

 Tennessee, and others by Joseph Jones, in his work on Tennessee.' 

 Jones describes a specimen of "dense, chocolate-colored steatite, repre- 

 senting a bird of prey, probably a bald eagle." ^ 

 The stem holes in pipes of this tyi)e are so placed in a majority of 



Fig. 67. 

 STONE WOOD DUCK PIPE. 



Cumberland County, Tennessee. 



Cat. No 201'25, U.S.N.M. Collected by Lorenzo A. Stratton. 



instances that the bird or beast — for both are represented — faces from 

 the smoker, and the specimens as a rule are well finished, the tool marks 

 on the exterior being usually entirely obliterated, though the drill 

 marks and evidences of enlargements of the bowls and stems are quite 

 distinct. 



' Explorations of the Aboriginal Remaius of Tennessee, Smithsonian Contributions 

 to Knowledge, No. 259. 

 2 Mom, p. 103, fig. 58. 



