540 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 161 is the cast of a soft white sandstone ])ipe fonnd in Stoddard 

 County, Missouri, and collected by Mr. T. L. Whitehead. It is 6 

 inches long and 7 inches high, apparently intended to represent a man 

 creeping upon game. The left knee touches the ground, the right one 



Fig. 160. 

 BICONICAL STONE PIPE. 



Kingston, Tennessee. 



Cat. No. 23559, U.S.N.M. Collecte.I by J. W. Du 



Fig. 161. 



BICONICAL STONE HUNTEK PIPE. 



Stoddard County, Missouri. 



Cast, ChI. No. 1)9343, U.S.N.M. Collei-twl by T. L. Wllitehe.ld. 



being raised, while in the left hand the hunter holds his bow. Tliere 

 is no right hand or arm, the head and neck of a deer or fawn taking its 

 place. Ou the back, between the bowl and stem openings, are four or 

 five incised lines somewhat of the character of the Arkansas specimen 



(fig. 159). Tlie face of the hunter, looking 

 fixedly forward, is of European type. The 

 treatment is highly artistic and could no 

 more be attributed to savage art than 

 could a music box should one chance to 

 be found in a mound. 



Fig. 102 is an almost black pottery 

 pipe 3 inches long, the paste of which it 

 was made being largely mixed with shells, 

 and is strikingly similar in treatment to 

 the stone specimen (tig. GO) from Tennes- 

 see. Though this pipe appears to belong 

 to the biconical type, they are so clearly 

 alike as to force the conviction of kinship 

 between them. While the stone pipe has six fingers, both specimens 

 represent the left hand, each holds the pipe bowl, and each has a similar 

 base. Professor Putnam probably refers to pipes of this type upon the 

 opposite side of the river from Madisouville, Ohio, when he says : " For 



Fig. 162. 

 BICONICAL POTtEEY PIPE. 



Mississippi County, Arkansas. 



Cat. No. 140884, U.S.N.M. Collected by B. F. 

 JackBoii. 



