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lived in western South Carolina, but, until we have established the 

 characteristic pottery of each, it is not possible to refer the specimens 

 figured here to any one of them. Bowl C of the above figure has a 

 simple ring of incised dots equatorially placed, and B has an original 

 design of considerable complication covering the whole exterior. It 

 consists of incised grooves so arranged as to indicate several figures 

 which are partly decorative and partly conventionalized. The circle 

 with tripointed figure, shown at the left, is also found repeatedly, in 

 combination with serpent designs, in the decoration of Mound Builder 

 l^ottery. In several figures snake symbols may easily be traced. It 

 would appear that this vessel was used in some of the Sun-Serpent 

 ceremonies indicated in the Mound Builder ceramics of several tribes. 

 A represents two pieces of partially fractured pottery in the Hertzog 

 collection. Their form is exceptional ; both have similar deeply 

 grooved parallel markings on the exterior, and remnants of legs, a 

 feature rare in prehistoric American pottery. From the arrangement 

 of the markings it would appear that the maker intended to represent 

 some quadruped. 



The clay and stone tobacco pipes of the Piedmont region sufifer 

 little in comparison with those which have been found west of the 

 Blue Ridge and some of them are unique in their excellence. I do 

 not remember to have seen, or to have read of, a Mound Builder 

 pipe as good as that shown in figure i88, A, and it is well known that 

 in the technique of the " platform " and " monitor " pipes the Mound 

 Builders excelled. Their productions in this line are among the best 

 examples of prehistoric American stone work. Some authors have 

 questioned the antiquity of the bird pipes of the Mound Builders, 

 but a careful study of the works of those who have done so and of 

 the examples of these objects in the Greenville collections leaves no 

 doubt in my mind that they are purely aboriginal and were not made 

 by white men for the Indian trade. The unfinished " bird pipe " in 

 figure i88, C, is very significant in this connection. It is a fine stone 

 pipe in which the bowl has not been hollowed out or the stem 

 perforated. 



The occurrence of stone bird pipes in the eastern Mound Builder 

 area proves that they were the occasion for long journeys or passed 

 long distances in trade, and I am reminded of a stone bird pipe from 

 Turks Island figured by Rudolf Cronau in his book on America, 

 which is so close to one from South Carolina shown here as to indi- 

 cate that it was probably brought to the West Indies from the 

 continent. 



