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placed оп а level surface. It is interesting to note that pipes are on sale at the 
present day, having precisely similar supports intended for the same purpose. Тһе 
pipe here shown by us has these supports well defined which display flattening 
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on the under surface ав if through wear. Some Arkansas pipes of this type, 
how ever, show the projections as mere knobs, as if conventionalizing had begun. 
Likewise apart from burials, were found: two earthenware balls similar in 
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size to objects used in our game of “marbles”; one ear-plug of earthenware; а 
Fic. 8.—Pipe of earthenware. Rose Mound. (Full size.) 
number of disks of pottery, several modeled and fired, but most of them made from 
fragments of earthenware vessels—the greater number of the latter having central 
perforations as is usually the case with these disks in northern Arkansas at least ; 
a number of rude objects of earthenware so imperfectly fired that many of them 
These objects, which may be described as 
having roughly the shape of a blunt cone, vary in height from 4 to 8 inches and 
were invariably found apart from burials and in the neighborhood of fireplaces 
which probably had served for the preparation of pottery. 
crumbled into fragments on removal. 
