248 THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA.—PATTERSON. 
the upper end for suspension, probably to be used with a spring 
pole. 
17. Tubes.—None in this collection, but it may be mentioned 
that there is one in the Provincial Museum, showing that in 
whatever way they were used by other tribes, the Mic-maes had 
the same practice. 
18. Pipes.—I have not found many pipes in Nova Scotia and 
none with sculptured figures upon them, as is common farther west, 
but Ihave heard of some being found by other collectors, and 
there is one in the collection from Collingwood, Ont., in which 
the bow! forms the representation of the head of an animal (No. 
178). Besides the one already described from the cemetery on 
the Big Island of Merigomish, there are two from Nova Scotia 
and one from Metapedia, N. B. One from Big’ Island of Meri- 
gomish is simply a bowl roughly formed of sandstone, and is pro- 
bably modern. The other two, one from Tatamagouche (No. 
176), and the one from Metapedia, N. B. (No. 287), exhibit what 
I regard as the typical Mic-mac pipe. It is known that each 
tribe of Indians has its form of cance, snow shoe, ete. and I 
believe also of pipes. It consists of a round bowl upon a ridge 
like a keel from one and a balf to two and a half inches long, 
from one end of which a hole is bored to the bottom of the 
bowl. This ridge is on the lower side again cut out so as to 
form a narrower keel, which is pierced with holes, probably for 
the receiving of a string by which it might be suspended from 
the neck. Of the pipes which I have seen both in Nova Scotia 
and New Brunswick, so large a majority were of this form that 
I believe it to be representative. On the ridge of the one from 
Metapedia there is delicately incised ornamental work, in waving 
lines and other shapes. . 
But there is an interesting stone found at Annapolis (No. 
281), out of which the manufacturer had begun to make a 
pipe. He had drilled through what he intended as the stem, 
and also from the top, till the two perforations met, and had 
partially drilled the bowl. But the stone had split from some 
cause and was rejected. It also shows marks of attempts to cut 
it by sawing. The holes drilled are about three-sixteenths of an 
