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FOSSIL MEN. 



earthworks in the Mississippi valley, and are described 

 and figured in their work, which forms the first volume 

 of " Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge." The 

 accompanying cut (Fig. 30) presents the outline of 

 the mound-pipe in its simple or primitive form. The 

 drawing is about half the size of the original, which 

 was exhumed with many similar articles from a mound 

 near Chillicothe, Ohio. It will be seen that the bowl 



Fig. 30. PIPE CABVED OUT OP HARD POEPHTEITIC STONE BY THE ALLEGHANS 

 op THE OHIO. 



a. Bowl drilled down to the base. 



b. Hole drilled through the base to the bowl. The bowl and base are covered 

 with small drilled holes for ornament. 



rises from the middle of a flat and somewhat curved 

 base, one side of which communicates by means of a 

 narrow perforation (&), one -sixth of an inch (about 

 four millimetres) in diameter, with the hollow of the 

 bowl (a), and represents the tube, or rather the mouth- 

 piece, of the pipe, while the other unperforated end 

 forms the handle by which the smoker held the imple- 

 ment and approached it to his mouth. Bowl and 

 base are ornamented with small cup-shaped holes. 



