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Smoking pipes. Smoking pipes of both stone and clay are numer- 

 ous in the Huron-Iroquois area. There are several general forms 

 but all bear striking resemblance to one another. 



Iroquois pipes seem much different from those found in any 

 other archeological area, and it does not appear at first thought that 

 they were derived from any other forms except perhaps the small 

 tubular form with its end bent upward at an angle. There are cer- 

 tain features, however, of Iroquois pipes that remind one of pipes 

 of contiguous tribes. It will be noted that the monitor pipe of 

 the mound-builder region has a bowl which resembles an oval vase 

 with a flaring rim. The bowl is set down into the platform, the 

 whole pipe of course being monolithic. The Iroquois did not use 

 the platform pipe, as we have previously remarked, but they did 

 employ every form of the stone bowl used on platform pipes. The 



Fig. 19 Monitor pipe of stone, showing the resemblance to a vaselike 

 bowl sunken in a stemmed base 



bowl, however, was built in all its lines much like the monitor type 

 but submerged into the platform stem. The same remark applies to 

 certain forms of effigy pipes where the bowl has an animal head 

 projecting from it. Certain forms of Iroquois clay pipes have simi- 

 lar bowls but w : th a stem of the same material projecting from it. 

 The Iroquois did not have anything identical with the mound types 

 with beautifully formed effigies of complete birds, toads, frogs 

 and small mammals, such as are featured by Squier and Davis. 1 



1 It must not be forgotten that Iroquois effigy pipes were mostly of modeled 

 clay and the mound effigy nipes of Carved stcn\ Compare the effigies of 

 these pipes, one with the other, and it will be seen how startlingly similar 

 they arc, where the same life forms have been imitated. 



