ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 89 
and in section in Fig. 39. "This pipe, 4.75 inches in height, is coarsely made and 
has suffered superficial disintegration. It represents a human figure seated on 
its lower limbs, which extend under and inward diagonally. "The figure, which 
faces the smoker, holds a biconical pipe. While in other respects this effigy- 
pipe is not of especial interest, the fact that it has an entire biconical pipe, that 
is to say not only the bowl but the portion made for the insertion of the stem, 
places it among a class that has few representatives. Almost invariably when 
Fic. 38.— Pipe of sandstone. Side view. (Full size.) 
a human figure is represented holding any part of a pipe, it is the bowl alone, and 
the stem of the pipe has an orifice to receive it in the back of the figure, and not 
like the bowl, outside the figure. In fact the only other exception to this rule 
that we know of (though no doubt there are others) is the effigy-pipe of earthen- 
ware found by us last season in the mound at Gahagan, La., Red River, and 
shown in our “Some Aboriginal Sites on Red River,"! Figs. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. 
! Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila., Vol. XIV. 
