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whole surface. Stems of this type usually project beyond the bowl and 

 broadeu out on each side of it to a greater or less distance. The out- 

 line of these pipes is at times strikingly similar to the form of the moni- 

 tor vessel of the civil war. On the upper side of the stem of a pipe of 

 this character in the collection of the U. S. National Museum from Ches- 

 ter County, South Carolina, occurs three straight lines cut through the 



Fig. 90. 



MONITOR PIPE. 



Sullivan County, Tennessee. 



Cat. No. 82390, U.S.N.M. ColleileJ by J. VV. Powell. 



surface in the form of a parallelogram open on the side next the mouth- 

 piece. A pipe of this type was also found on York Eiver, Virginia, 

 and is in the collection of Col. William H. Love, of Baltimore, Mary- 

 land. 



A very similar specimen about 7 inches long, but without the heel, is 

 here given, after Mr. Gerard Fowke (fig. 00), collected by Maj. J. W. 

 Powell in Sullivan County, Tennessee. It was found in a burial 

 mound and is of black chlorite. It has an alate stem, 

 so common in pipes of this character. The largest 

 specimen of this type so far encountered is probably 

 a "Great pipe," having a bowl 8 inches long, being 

 upward of 17 inches in total length, which was found 

 in a mound in Marion County, Kentucky, collected 

 by Mr. William T. Knott. This pipe is finished so 



delicately and carefully 

 that over its whole sur- 

 face there does not re- 

 main a single mark from 

 the tools with which it 

 was made. The smooth- 

 ness of the surface is such 

 and thebowl and stem are 

 so thin that it would require unusual care to duplicate it with any tools 

 with which it may have been made. In pipes of this type there is 

 almost invariably a pronounced ridge running the length of the center 

 of the stem, and so marked is this as to suggest a ductile prototype, 

 either of pottery or metal. 



Fig. 91 is a pipe from Caldwell County, North Carolina, collected by 



Fig. 91. 



MONITOR PIPE. 



Caldwell County, North Carolina. 



Cat. No. 83037, U.S.N.M. Collecttd by J. P. RoRa 



