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is a helmet, are superior. The collection of pipes is also very good, as 

 well as the minerals, axes, celts, and a large variety of pottery. 



In addition to these large collections, many smaller ones have been 

 made in an incidental way. New specimens are being found from time 

 to time. Last year a very peculiar one was found ten miles east of 

 Evansville near the mouth of Green River by a negro while digging a 

 hole in which to bury a dead rnimal. Thi: specimen (fig. 1) v/hich is 



FiK. 1. Iiiilian i)i|>o tnl.cn fnim a mound near Evansville, Indiana. About oiu'-hall' 

 natural size. 



recognized by thu Smitlisonian authorities as a pipe, is fix inches high and 

 seven inches long, and is made of light gray sandstone. It represents a 

 man on all fours with head raised, and has two conical holes in it, one on 

 the back and one in the reai' — the two holes connecting. One hole served 

 as the bowl and the other for the attachment of the stem. Having been 

 found in the alluvial deposit, it indicates that it had been washed there. 

 In the locality where this pipe was found are the five mounds of Van- 

 derburgh County referred to above, and it seems highly probable that 

 it came from one of these, cither directly or from soine hous3 where it 

 had been kept as a relic after having been taken from a mound. 



Not only arc works of man found in Posey and Vanderburgh coun- 

 ties, but also the remains of some of the ancient animals as well. A 

 few weeks ago a part of the tooth of a mastodon was found in the 

 river at West Franklin, 12 miles below Evansville. Near the same 

 place, not long since, a thigh bone was found which weighed 55 pounds. 



