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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 126. 

 MOUND PIPE. 



Clark County, Ohio. 



. 42667, U.S.N.M. Collect.'il liy G. L. Febige 



The bases of them all appear to curve longitiulinally ; the upper side of 

 the iilatform composing the base usually presents a convex surface from 

 side to side, though at times it is perfectly flat, or, rarely, it may be 

 found showing a slightly concave surface. The simplest form of this 

 pipe resemldes in outline that of the lip ornanient of the Eskimo, 

 the bowl b'^ing urn-shaped, with a more or less pronounced flaring toj), 



which would indicate a probabU» 

 ac(piaiiitance with pottery. The 

 tops of the bowls and their exte 

 rior rims are at times decorated 

 with a row of dots, or it may be 

 an encircling straight line or lines. 

 The interiors of bowls are, with 

 rare exceptions, of great uniform- 

 ity, their exteriors varying from 

 specimens with perfectly smooth 

 surfaces to those in imitation of 

 numerous members vf the animal 

 kingdom, including man and the elephant. 



The most simple specimen of the typical mound pipe is seen in fig. 12G, 

 found in a mound in Clark County, Ohio, collected by G. L. Febiger, 

 United States Army, and is composed of a soft white stone — possibly 

 limestone. It is 4 inches long, with a height of 2 inches, the base being 

 IJ inches broad. The interior < f the bowl has a uniform diameter of 

 seven eighths of an inch its 

 whole depth, and appears to be 

 bored by means of a tubular 

 drill, though the stem seems to 

 have been bored by means of a 

 solid drill, the hole being one- 

 eighth of an inch in diameter. 

 These proportions are practi- 

 cally constant in the mound 

 pipes. Though this pipe has 

 been badly broken, its several 

 pieces have been jireserved and 

 carefully glued in place. The 

 specimen is typical and simple, 

 entirely without ornament, its 

 surface having been brought to 

 a uniform smoothness, though the marks of a file on the bowl and stem 

 are in places almost too distinct to be mistaken. These marks consist 

 of a series of lines of equal length on apparently flat surfaces, all e(pii 

 distant, which the writer has been unable to imitate in any way except 

 by means of the metal file, various kinds of sandstone and quart/ite 

 being tried with unsatisfactory results. 

 A dark green steatite (fig. 127) from Marietta, Ohio, collected by 



MOUND PIPE. 



Marietta, Ohio. 



Cat. No. 54S1, U.S.N.M. Cullecteil by J. Vardcn. 



