516 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
Ето. 16.—Earthen ware pipe. 
View of base. 
Fra. 17.—Earthenware pipe. Vertical section, showing pas- 
sageway between the bowl of the pipe and the mouth of the 
image. (Full size.) 
We now come to the most striking 
feature of all. Connected with the base of 
the pipe-bowl is a passageway ascending 
through the body of the figure, as shown 
in the diagram (Fig. 17), and ending at the 
mouth, which is open, in a way that smoke 
can be made to emerge from the mouth 
when the pipe isin use. This feature we 
believe to be hitherto unreported in con- 
nection with aboriginal pipes. 
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes writes as to this 
pipe as follows : 
“T do not recall ever having seen an 
aboriginal pipe constructed in the way you 
describe, but I can readily see how it 18 
possible to combine a ‘ cloud blower’ and а 
