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present specimen, this flattened base or keel, when viewed side- 

 ways, is square, not lobed, in outline, and below the centre it 

 contains a ronnd hole for the suspension of an ornament or to 

 facilitate attachment to the owner's dress by means of a thong. 

 The bowl and keel are most tastefully ornamented with single 

 and double straight lines, dots, very short diagonal dashes, and 

 conventional branches of foliage, all arranged in neat designs 

 which entitle the carver to much credit for his excellent work. 

 I have never seen a more comely Micmac pipe. The style of 

 ornamentation much resembles that of a very graceful pipe of 

 fine argil lite which belongs to my father, Henry Piers, Esq. 

 This, for the sake of comparison, I have illustrated in Fig. 97. 

 It was made by a Maliseet Indian of New Brunswick, and bears 

 the date March 5th, 1851). The figure on che fore part of the 

 bowl is excellently carved, and represents a long-haired Indian, 

 seated, with arms across his breast. The other decorations 

 manifest much taste on the part of their swarthy designer.* 



Dr. Almon's specimen, last referred to, is made of a blackish 

 stone, probably a close grained argillite. The total length is 

 nearly 2*59 inches ; and the height of bowl, 1*40. It is in a fine 

 state of preservation, and everything seems to indicate that it 

 was formed with modern metal tools. Possibly it is not a century 

 old. 



Dr. Almon's lizard pipe and the flat-based specimen from 

 Musquodoboit in the Provincial Museum, are the most interesting 

 examples of this class I have yet seen in our province. Neither, 

 however, are to be considered as typically Micmac. 



Incertce sedis. Three specimens, which cannot be treated 

 under any of the preceding heads, yet remain to be described. A 



* The half-tone plate does not show with sufficient distinctness the designs on the 

 pipes represented in Figs. 97 and 98. M. Lescarbot says that " our Souriquois [Micmacs] 

 and Armouchiquois savages have the industry both of painting and carving, and do 

 make pictures of beasts, birds, and men, as well in stone as in wood, as prettily as good 

 workmen in these parts ; and notwithstanding they serve not themselves with them in 

 adoration, but only to please the sight, and the use of some private tools, as in tobacco- 

 pipes." [Book II, chap, v.] 



