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On the other hand, one continually hears of interesting * finds " made in the 
level ground in the vicinity of the mounds, and the history of the objects dis- 
covered can be traced. 
We are indebted to Mr. С. S. Prince, of whom we have spoken as one of the 
present owners of the Moundville mounds, for exact details of the discovery there 
of effigy-pipes of stone, many years ag | 
Мт. О. T. Prince, father of Mr. С. S. Prince, acquired the property on which 
the mounds are in 1857, and died in 1862. Тһе pipes were found at the time of 
Mr. O. T. Prince's tenure of the property, by two colored men who were digging a 
diteh near one of the smaller mounds of the group--the one marked M on our 
survey. 
These pipes were held for a long time in the Prince family, and were shown, 
with certain other relics, before a scientific society іп 1875, when a photograph of 
them was made (Fig. 1). Later, one of the pipes was disposed of and, fortunately, 
fell into the hands of Gen. Gates P. Thruston, who describes and figures it.! 
Fic. 1.—Antiquities found at Moundville. 
Two of the pipes shown, and one that was excluded from the photograph on 
account of its inferior condition, with equal good fortune to science, were procured 
by Professor F. W. Putnam, for Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. They are 
shown in Figs. 2, 3, from photographs kindly furnished by Professor Putnam. 
At the time the pipes went to Cambridge, a stone disc, 8.75 inches in diameter, 
found in the level ground at Moundville, was disposed of to Professor Putnam and 
is shown here in Fig. 4, from a photograph also courteously furnished by him, A 
reproduction of a drawing of the design on the disc, made by Mr. C. C. Willoughby, 
is given in Fig. 5. Mr. Willoughby informs us that a part of the design at the 
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1 “Antiquities of Tennessee," p. 187. 
