602 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



what weather won I, which greatly resembles a bird upon a perch, yet 

 it has on it four shallow depressious made by a solid drill point and 

 along the side of the base a slight groove ground into the stone, slightly 

 smoothed, which constitutes every particle of artificial work on the 

 whole specimen, all of which could not have required one hour's time. 

 The object is 5 inches long and 3.^ inches high, Avith a width of If 

 inches. The body appears like that of a bird, is well formed, and of so 

 distinct a character as to have suggested to many persons that a 

 parrot was here represented, and the drill marks and grinding tool 

 have been brought into play to heighten the resemblance. The pipes 

 herein referred to as not x)roperly belonging to any type described 

 may upon further investigation be assigned to some one or other of 

 the dozen or more figured, or may be found to belong to types of 

 ■which there are examples in collections with which the writer is 

 not familiar. They may be very ancient or possibly quite modern. 



It should be remembered, however, 

 that among the American pipes arch- 

 aeologists as a rule are prone to attach 

 to them too great an antiquity, and 

 consequently few pipes are described 

 as belonging to the historic Indian. 

 Mr. M. C. Read says that ''near Wil- 

 loughby, in Lake County, Ohio, is a 

 site of an Indian village which has 

 furnished a great variety of relics. A 

 Fiff- 205. veryinterestingaudinstructivecollec- 



NATUEAL FORM. ^-^^ ^^ ^jp^^ finishcd aud unfinished 



Cliautauqua County, New York. i /• j.i • i tj^ i • 



was made from this locality and is 



C:a. No. 22167, U.S.N.M. Collected by O. E.lson. -^ 



now in the Metropolitan Museum in 

 Central Park, New York. These show that water- worn pebbles were 

 selected, exhibiting slightly an animal form, which the pipe maker 

 picked into a more perfect animal shape, without much apparent design 

 of imitating any particular species. These were the work of modern 

 Indians and were greatly inferior to the specimens obtained from the 

 mounds." ' 



Prof. Daniel Wilson sees matter worthy of note in the supposed corre- 

 spondence between the ancient Peruvian tobacco mortars and the stone 

 pipe of the mound builders, with their imitations of birds of the southern 

 continent.^ 



Like resemblances may be observed between many objects from the 

 southern and northern continents, though that there was relationship 

 between them, especially in the pipes, will not be conceded at the pres- 

 ent day, for there is no single instance in which a southern bird or 

 animal has been recognized upon a mound pipe, nor, so far as the writer 



^ Archaeology of Ohio, p. 51, Cleveland. 

 ^ Prehistoric Man, I, p. 381, London, 1876. 



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