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back of the Lead the hair is plaited in a queue and attached to the stem 

 so as to form a space between the queue and the head, by which a string- 

 could be attached, if desired. The mouth and teeth are both prominent. 

 The treatment of the head is unique, though the band on the stem 

 appears to connect the pipe with those found in North Carolina, Georgia, 

 and Tennessee, and shows in what varieties these jnpes are at times 

 found. The material from which it is made is a compact stalagmite. 



Fig. L'OS, from a Georgia mound, shows in pottery identical treatment 

 with the ])receding figure from Tennessee, though the treatment of the 

 head is certainly very highly conventionalized and the queue and rim 

 of the bowl, as well as the face marks, whether paint or tattoo, and the 

 teeth would hardly be recognized were it not for the Tennessee stone 

 specimens furnishing a guide with which the Georgia pipe may be 

 compared. In fact the analogy in pipes from 

 Georgia and Tennessee is often observed. 



Squier and Davis figure a clay pipe found 

 opposite the mouth of the Hocking Kiver, in 

 Virginia, "where there are abundant traces 

 of an ancient peoj)le in the form of embank- 

 ments, mounds, etc.,"^ which represents a 

 head of a person whose hair appears to be 

 d(me up more in the manner of the whites 

 than that of the natives, and Jones also fig- 

 ures one form which has the band upon the 

 stem.- 



SOME UNIQUE TYPES. 



Fig. 209. 



STONE PIPE. 



Jackson County, Missouri. 



Cat. No. 174014, U.S.N.M. 

 Collected bv James Rodman 



Fig. 200 is a dark-green speckled serpen- 

 tine pipe 2i inches in greatest diameter,with 

 a width of 1^ inches, being a surface find from 

 Jackson County, Missouri, and collected by 

 Dr. James liodman, of Kentucky. It is of an attractive green and 

 white color, having been smoothed with unusual care, the outer surface 

 having all tool marks obliterated. The bowl and stem openings, each 

 of five-eighths of an inch in uniform diameter to their point of intersec- 

 tion in the center of the specimen, have been bored by means of a metal 

 tubular drill. In shape, material, and character of finish this pipe is 

 uni([ue. 



A very remarkable instance of the distance which Indians will 

 carry material is noted by Dr. Daniel Wilson. "Dr. Kane," he says, 

 "informed me that in coming down the Athabasca River, when near 

 its source in the Eocky Mountains, he observed his Assinaboine 

 guides select the favorite bluish jasper from among the water-worn 

 stones in the bed of the river to carry home for the purpose of pipe 

 manufacture, although they were then fully 500 miles from their 



' Aucieut Moanmeuts of the Mississippi Valley, p. 194, fig. 77. 

 -Antiquities of the Soutberu Indians, plate xxiv, lig. 3. 



