518 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 128. 

 MOUND SNAKE PIPE. 



Mound City, Ohio. 



Cast, Cat. No. 7231, U.S.N. M. Cullected by S^iu 



"Four miles north of Chillicotlie, Oliio, there lies, close to the Ohio 

 lliver, ail embaukineiit of earth somewhat in the shape of a square 

 with strongly rounded angles, and inclosing an area of 13 acres, over 

 which twenty-three mouiuls are scattered without much regularity. 

 This work has been called Mound City."' 



Squier and Davis say that the pi pes 

 found at Mound City ''were inter- 

 mixed with much ashes, pearl and 

 shell beads, disks, tubes, etc., and a 

 number of other ornaments of copper 

 covered with silver."^ 



It were, indeed, difficult to con- 

 ceive a more graceful design than 

 fig. 12<S represents. It is one of the 

 casts of a pipe collected by Squier 

 and Davis in Mound No. 8, at Mound 

 City, Ohio. The cast is 3 inches long, the bowl having an interior 

 diameter of three-fourths of an inch, the pipe standing 1| inches in 

 height. The snake is curled around the bowl with his tail extending 

 along the base, the markings of the snake being represented by incised 

 lines forming diamonds. 



The Marquis de Kadaillac illustrates a pipe from a mound in IMercer 

 County, Illinois, made from an indurated clay, on which the snake is 

 wound three times around the 

 bowl.' 



Another of the mound type 

 of pipes is shown in fig. 129, 

 collected by Squier and Davis 

 in Mound No. 8, Avhich in size 

 varies little from the' preced- 

 ing specimen. The frog sits 

 in typical position as though 

 ready to jump, the legs being 

 well shown, as are the toes of 

 the feet, those in front being 

 well turned in and three toes 

 on each foot. The eyes were depressed; the scales, scarcely one- six-^ 

 teenth of an inch in diameter, are formed by incised lines all over thej 

 body, having apparently been cut with a sharp-pointed tool. A some- 

 what similar frog pipe found in a mound with one which was jilain isj 

 illustrated by Mr. 11. J. Farquharson.'' 



'Charles Rau, Archaeological Collections of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 46. 

 • 2^ncient Monuments of the Mississippi Yallej', pp. 151, 152. 



^Les Pipes et le Tab.ic, ^latoriaux pour I'llistoire Primitire et Naturelle de I'llonuue,! 

 p. 498, November, 188.^). 



^Proceedings, Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, I, p. 119, plate iv, fig. 5. 



Fig. 129. 



MOUND FKOG PIPE. 



Mound City, Ohio. 



ill, U.S.N.M. Cllntiil liy S.iM 



