SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 515 
more from it, extended various deposits in а line. At the northern corner. together, 
were Vessel No. 1 and a pipe of earthenware. 
This unique pipe, 5.5 inches in height (Figs. 13, 14, 15, 16), consists of a 
human figure seated on the lower limbs which extend parallel beneath, the feet 
turned inward. The figure is not turned toward the outside world as figures on 
Fic. 13.—Pipe of earthenware, with interior passage between FIG. 14.—Earthenware pipe. Side view. 
the bowl and the mouth of the figure. Gahagan, La. 
(Height 5.5 incnes. ) 
the pipes of the white man invariably are, but faces the smoker, as aboriginal pipes 
sometimes were constructed, the mind of the savage apparently possessing a smaller 
share of altruism (or an inferior measure of vanity, shall we say?) than that of 
civilized man. ; 
The figure is represented as holding, not a simple pipe-bowl (as figures of this 
kind in connection with aboriginal pipes usually do, the orifice for the stem being 
in the figure), but a regular biconical pipe complete. 
