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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 223. 

 SOUTHERN MOUND PIPE. 



Ashe County, Nortli Carolina. 



Cat. No. 98608, U.S.N.M. Collected by \V. C. Jirdonst 



Jirdonstou, and, though the type characteristics are accurate in a 

 measure, the specimen has an extremely modern appearance, tile marks 

 being quite distinguishable over the entire surface. The bowl is care- 

 fully bored to a depth of l^^ inches, with an opening 1^ inches and of 



uniform diameter. Even the band on 

 the stem has here become percepti- 

 bly modified. 



Fig. 224 is a diminutive chlorite pipe 

 from Caldwell County, IsTortli Carolina, 

 collected by Mr. J. P. Rogau in the E. T. 

 Lenoir burial place. It has a length 

 of 1^ inches, with a heigiit of an inch, 

 and is in every way a symmetrical, 

 though diminutive, specimen. The em- 

 bossed eyes, while as distinct and in as 

 high relief from the general surface as 

 are the others, are so ground as to 

 leave them in separate groups of three 

 on a side. They are so rounded down 

 to the surrounding surface by friction 

 on the side of the disks as gradually to lose their identity on their edges. 

 In general characteristics tig. 225 is true to the type — though it is 

 made of i)ottery — and was found in the Lenoir burial i)lace, Caldwell 

 County, North Carolina, by Mr. J. P. Eogan. It is 2 inches long. 

 The clay appears to be mixed with a large x^roportiou of mica for tem- 

 pering. There are three disks in this instance on a side, while over the 

 stem where it joins the bowl there is an enlargement, but neither band 

 nor tongue. The similarities in the embossed circles on this pipe and 

 those made of stone are most striking and unmistakable. The rim of 

 the bowl is more pronounced than in any 

 of the stone specimens, and into its outer 

 edge eight notches are cut at intervals. 



There is in the Douglass collection a i)ot- 

 tery pipe of this type from Mazeppa, Geor- 

 gia, upon the stem of which appears the 

 band, which, as observed in the figures 

 illustrated, is not a constant occurrence, 

 though quite common in this type. 



Mr. Clarence B. Moore, in his recent ex- 

 ploration on the Georgia coast, illustrates 

 an earthenware pipe (fig. 22G) with the stem 

 band, upon the bowl of which are a number 



of these disks with flattened peripheries in high relief, and from a point 

 just below the rim of the bowl to the stem there is a loop of pottery, as 

 in the Tennessee specimen figured, which appears to connect the two.' 



riff. 224. 

 SOUTHERN MOUND PIPE. 



Caldwell Couutj', North Carolina. 



Cat. No. 830-11!, U.S.N.M. Collected by 

 J. P. Rog.Hn. 



' Certain Aboriginal Mounds on the Georgia Coast, tig. 21, Philadelphia, 1897. 



