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are quite distinct. The specimen is 2J inches high and 2 inches long, 

 the shape of the bowl opening being of a distinctly elliptical form, 

 similar to certain of the typical mound pipes. Another pipe of this 

 character was found at Newark, Ohio, on the bowl of which there was 

 an animal head. 



A specimen of the same type in the collection of the Davenport 

 Academy of Natural Sciences was found in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, 

 and is made of pipestoue of slightly greenish tinge. 



DISK PIPES. 



There is a pipe of most peculiar shape, known commonly as the 

 "disk pipe," so called from the discoidal stem, which at first glance 

 one would be apt to take for its bowl. The larger cavity being in a 

 line parallel to the face of the disk would suggest 

 that the stem was intended to be inserted through 

 the disk, around which a thong would be tied to 

 hold it more firmly in i)Osition, the depth of the disk 

 being insufticient to hold a stem unless it were 

 bound in some way. 



A longitudinal section of such pipes shows simi- 

 larity in bowl and stem hole to pipes found in the 

 State of Missouri, though the exteriors are very 

 unlike. This similarity is pronounced in a pipe of 

 oolitic limestone from Chattanooga, which is illus- 

 trated by Thruston.' 



A badly weathered white limestone specimen (fig. 

 109) of this type is from a mound in Union County, 

 Kentucky, collected by Mr. S. S. Lyon. It is 3J 

 inches long, and only li inches from the face of the 

 disk to the opi^osite side of the pipe, the disk being 

 li inches in diameter, with a bowl cavity of five- 

 eighths of an inch diameter, by one-half an inch for 

 size of the stem opening. Thruston illustrates two 

 specimens of this type made of catlinite, one com- 

 ing from the Noel stone grave cemetery, near Nashville, Tennessee.^ 

 In the Douglass collection there are six catlinite i)ipes of this character 

 from Boone, Saline, and Chariton counties, Missouri. 



Mr. David Boyle, of Toronto, also describes two of these pipes, one 

 from Middlesex County, and the other from Huron County, Ontario, 

 one of which was made trom catlinite. The bowls and stems are 

 usually carefully drilled, and their exteriors are remarkably well 

 polished. Dr. E. A. Barber describes pipes of this type from mounds 

 in Missouri.^ 



1 Gates P. Thrustou, Antiquities of Tennessee, p. 201, 1890. 



2 Idem, p. 199. 



^American Naturalist, XVII, p. 75, figs. 3, 4. 



Fig. 109. 

 DISK PIPE OF LIMESTONE. 



Union County, Kentucky. 



Cat. No. 7077, U.S.N. M. 

 Collected by S. S. Lyon. 



