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ANTIQUITIES OF WISCONSIN. 



Fig. 45 is a fragment of a pipe made of a reddish argillaceous stone. 

 Fig. 46 is of gray fine-grained sandstone, so soft that it was apparently cut and 

 reduced to the proper form with a knife. 



Fig. 47 is of the same material, in which was found a small nodule of iron pyrites ; 



Fig. 45. 



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and the artist has taken advantage of this to ornament his work, and to leave a 

 corresponding protuberance on the opposite side for symmetry. It was presented to 

 me by Miss Amelia E. Higgins. 



Fig. 48 is made of the beautiful red pipe-stone from the " Coteau des Prairies," and 

 is probably also a calumet, or pipe of state. 



Fig. 49 was made and used by the Menomonee Indians of the Neenah river, from 

 a whitish stone, now injured by accidental fire. 



Fig. 48. Fig. 49. 



One half natural size. 



One half natural size. 



The pipe. Figs. 50 and 51, is of a dark-colored stone or clay slate, with traces of 

 organic remains surrounded by iron pyrites. The end may be suj)posed to repre- 



Two tliirds natural size. 



Two thirds natural size. 



