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Pipe Fi^. 2 is oi' recent manufacture, and bears testinnony to the 

 TsiiKoh'tin's faculty of imitation. It has been wrought out of an impure 

 steatite or soap stone. Its stem is a wooden tube connected with the 

 base of the bowl by a double string or chain of black beads. The stem 

 of such pipes is more generally lengthened through the insertion of a 

 perforated brass cartridge shell between the base and the mouthpiece. 



Fig. 2. 



Specimens of pipes identical in form, and sometimes in material, 

 though many are of serpentine, are also found among the Ts^'kehne. 

 But now-a-days the poorest Carrier scorns them as utterly unsuited to 

 his present state of civilization. 



