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Other forms of mound pipes used by the Iroquois without any 

 alteration are those from the Erie region resembling animal claws 

 and those modeled along cubical lines with a short stem base for the 

 insertion of a reed. Iroquois and mound pipes interpreted and 

 compared in the light of these observations show in general con- 

 cept a remarkable similarity. They are more alike than are the pipes 

 from the southern states or the Atlantic seaboard. 



Fig. 22 Iroquoian slare pipe from Otsego county. 

 W. E. Yager collection. 



The stone owl pipe and the lizard pipe, which have been described 

 best by Col. George E. Laidlaw of the Provincial Museum of 

 Ontario, are found in the early Iroquois sites in New York and 

 undoubtedly sites in the same period throughout the entire Iroquois 

 area. The Province of Ontario has yielded many, numbers of them 



