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present specimen, this flattened base or keel, when viewed side- 
ways, is square, not lobed, in outline, and below the centre it 
contains a round hole for the suspension of an ornament or to 
facilitate attachment to the owner's dress by means of a thong. 
The bow] and keel are most tastefully ornamented with single 
and double straight lines, dots, very short diagonal dashes, and 
conventional branches of foliage, all arranged in neat designs 
which entitle the carver to much credit for his excellent work. 
I have never seen a more comely Micmac pipe. The style of 
ornamentation much resembles that of a very graceful pipe of 
fine argillite which belongs to my father, Henry Piers, Esq. 
This, for the sake of comparison, I have illustrated in Fig. 97. 
It was made by a Maliseet Indian of New Brunswick, and bears 
the date March 5th, 1859. The figure on che fore part of the 
bowl is excellently carved, and represents a long-haired Indian, 
seated, with arms across his breast. The other decorations 
manifest much taste on the part of their swarthy designer.” 
Dr. Almon’s specimen, last referred to, is made of a blackish 
stone, probably a close grained argillite. The total length is 
nearly 2°50 inches; and the height of bowl, 1:40. It is ina fine 
state of preservation, and everything seems to indicate that it 
was formed with modern metal tools. Possibly it is not a century 
old. 
Dr. Almon’s lizard pipe and the flat-based specimen from 
Musquodoboit inthe Provincial Museum, are the most interesting 
examples of this class I have yet seen in our province. Neither, 
however, are to be considered as typically Micmac. 
Incertce sedis.— Three specimens, which cannot be treated 
under any of the preceding heads, yet remain to be described. A 
* The half-tone plate does not show with sufficient distinctness the designs on the 
pipes represznted in Figs. 97 and 98. M. Lescarbot says that ‘‘ our Souriquois [Micmacs] 
and Armouchiquois savages have the industry both of painting and carving, and do 
make pictures of beasts, birds, and men, as well in stone as in wood, as prettily as good 
_ workmen in these parts; and notwithstanding they serve not themselves with them in 
adoration, but only to please the sight, and the use of some private tools, as in tobacco- 
pipes.” [Book IT, chap. v.] 
