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Fig. I.— Pipe found in a cornfield, Louis.^ County, Iowa,— two-thirds 



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Fig. 2.— Pipe found i.\ a mound, Louisa County, Iowa,— full size. 



With these illustrations in view, archaeologists will read with amuse- 

 ment the singular argument of Mr. Henshaw, based upon the supposed 

 absence of the "tails" in these pipes: 



'■'■It is also remarkable that in neither of these pipes is the tail indicated, 

 although a glance at the other sculptures will show that in the full-length figures 

 this member is invariably shown. In respect to these omissions, the pipes from 

 Iowa are strikingly suggestive of the elephant monnd of Wisconsin, with the 

 peculiarities of which the sculptor, whether ancient, or modern, might almost be 

 supposed to have been acquainted. It certainly must be looked upon as a curious 

 coincidence that carvings found at a point so remote from the elephant mound, and 



