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them are drilled immediately into the body of the bowl. Pipes of this de 

 scription assume innumerable forms. Some are produced without much art, 

 almost reminding one of the corn-cob pipes in use among the farmers of 

 this country (Fig. 186, compact argillaceous stone, Pennsylvania) ; others 

 are fashioned with great care, and may be counted among the better class of 

 Indian products of art. As an example the writer would mention a highly 

 polished serpentine pipe from West Virginia, which might at first sight easily 



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be mistaken for the imitation of a swan, though it has been ascertained by 

 competent ornithologists that the bird was intended for the loon (Fig. 187). 

 Generally speaking, birds were rather frequently the models copied by the 

 manufacturers of the pipes under notice, and an upright bird figure, Avith the 

 receptacle of the narcotic hollowed out downward between the wings and an 

 aperture for the stem at some distance from the end of the tail, may be con 

 sidered as a typical form. A specimen of this description (Fig. 188), made 



