612 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



slightly iu excess of lialf an inch, which gnidually decreases to one- 

 fourth of an inch at the point, the whole stem being bored by means of 

 a solid drill. The bowl has a flaring rim, and at the base of the stem a 

 tongue is worked out of the stone in low relief on the bowl, reaching 

 two thirds of the way to the top as though made in imitation of a 

 similar specimen of metal. 



Though the tool niarks are carefjilly obliterated from the stem, there 

 is visible on the bowl a number of line, straight, parallel lines, which 

 suggest the i^robable use of a metal tile. When the length of this pipe 

 is considered it Avill readily be perceived how delicate was the manipu- 

 lation of the tool not to break the stem in boring it. The length and 

 delicacy of the stem would suggest that such an implement would be 

 owned by individuals having sedentary habits, for otherwise its length 

 of stem would make it liable to break in being carried from point to 

 j)oint. On this pipe, as has so often been observed of others, the mark 

 of the teeth is not noticeable. 



The writer's attention has been called to two pipes in the Essex 



'Fiji. 210. 

 ATLANTIC COAST PIPE. 



Essex County. Massachusetts. 



Peabody Academy of Sciences. 



County collection of the Peabody Academy of Science, in Salem, 

 Massachusetts, very much of the character of the last figure, except, 

 possibly, that the edge of the bowl does not flare out in so pronounced 

 a manner. These pipes are about <> inches long, are made of soapstone, 

 and were found in Indian graves, which, from their great similarity to 

 the southern specimens of the same type (fig. 219), the writer would 

 be inclined to consider of a date subsequent to English settlement in 

 the country. 



SOUTHERN MOUND PIPES. 



Fig. 220 is a dark green serpentine pipe, from Monroe County, Ten- 

 nessee, collected by Mr. J. W. Emmert, which, because of the difterence 

 in the size of its stem opening and the enlarged band on the end of the 

 stem, necessitates its being placed in a separate class, though the tongue- 

 like appearance on the bowl shows it to be related to the pipes which 

 we have described with similar decoration. Such pipes are evidently 

 intended to be smoked by means of separate stems, and while the tongue 

 ■would indicate a metal prototype, the band or enlargement of the stem 

 would suggest it was copied from a plastic model. Pipes of this type 



