538 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 156. 

 BICONICAL ANIMAL PIPE. 



Coahama County, Mississippi. 



Cat. No. 11649, U.S.N.M. Collected by J. L. Alcorn. 



round. The upper edge of the bowl, which is 1^ inches in diameter, is 

 .^lightly raised above the surrounding surface, and instead of one there 

 are two stem holes connecting with the bowl, each of which is about 

 the same diameter as is the bowl. The double stem or double bowl is 



a feature, though not a common 

 one, in American pipes. The clay 

 from which this pijte was made does 

 not appear to have either shells or 

 sand tempering. 



Fig. 157 is a soft, coarse, gray 

 sandstone pipe from a mound in 

 Louisiana, collected by Brig. Gen. 

 D. Swift, United States Army, and 

 stands 3 inches high and repre- 

 sents some four-footed creature ; this 

 pipe, however, has not been com- 

 pleted, for neither eyes, nose, nor 

 mouth are indicated. The legs are 

 represented in the manner at times 

 observed in toys, or as they appear upon certain of the statues found 

 by Layard at Koyounjik. The slightly raised bowl has the same treat- 

 ment observed in the preceding pottery specimen ; the stem hole has 

 been enlarged by gouging, while upon the base is found an ovoidal 

 depression, a grinding surface com- 

 monly encountered in the biconical 

 pipes. A somewhat similar speci- 

 men, though made from clay, found 

 in the Yazoo River, Mississippi, is 

 figured in Squier and Davis's An- 

 cient Monuments.^ 



The crouching animal (fig. 158) 

 from Hot Springs, Arkansas, col- 

 lected by Mr. L. H. Thing, made 

 from a soft cretaceous limestone, is 

 5i inches long and 4 inches high, 

 with a width of 3 inches. The bowl 

 at its top is slightly raised above 

 the creature's back, and running 

 from its raised rim there is a nar- 

 row baud to the head, and a slightly 

 broader one extends back until it joins the stem hole. The eyes are* 

 depressions cai'efully cut into the stone, while the mouth is designated 

 by three drill holes barely started. There are lines cut into the face 

 giving to the head a ferocious expression. The nose is represented by 

 two ridges, one of which has been broken away, and over the eye a 



Fig. 157. 



BICONICAL ANIMAL PIPE. 



Louisiana. 



Cat. No. 8648, U.S.N.M. Collected by D. Swift. 



' Ancieut Mouumeuts of the Mississippi Valley, p. 193. 



