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99 is a short platform pipe, the bowl being much narrower the 

 other way. Many of these platform pipes are of recent date, the ear- 

 lier ones often having a curving base. This is from Onondaga 

 Lake, and is one and seven eighths inches long by one and one 

 fourth deep. 



Fig. 100 is a black marble pipe from Jamesville, near the site 

 where the Onondaga fort was burned in 1696. The situation, how- 

 ever, does not necessarily indicate its age, nor have we any certain 

 guide to this. All examples of this form have the figure or face, 

 where there is either, toward the smoker, which was an early fash- 

 ion; otherwise the pipe would seem recent. This has a full length 

 of a man, rudely carved, on the back of the bowl, and the zigzag 

 ornament at the top has a modern look. The lines enclosing the 

 figure, and the raised rim above it, appear in clay pipes made three 

 centuries ago, and this is probably one of the earliest pipes made for 

 or bv the Iroquois with metallic tools. The extreme length is four 

 and three fourths inches, about the average size of this form, which 

 frequentlv occurs. There is, however, an Indian pipe, resembling 

 this form but without the elevated projection and figure, which 

 belonged to Tim Murphy, the noted rifleman and ranger of the 

 Revolution, and which has his initials upon it. It is a little more 

 angular, and is three and one fourth inches long by one and one 

 fourth high. This is not far from the dimensions of some of these. 

 These things suggest a modern date, strengthened by the localities 

 where most of such pipes have been found. 



One of these of a burnt sienna color, with a face on the back and 

 a moulding at the top, has the same general character. It is from 

 Baldwinsville, and is two and three quarters inches long. One of 

 soapstone, four inches long, has an elevation like the Jamesville 

 pipe, and is from the Oneida River. Another of the same character, 

 from the Seneca river, is of white marble, and the extreme length is 

 three and three fourths inches. Another with a human figure on 

 the back is from Schodack. It is of yellow soapstone, and is larger 

 than most of this kind. A white one from Root, Montgomery 

 County, has a human figure, and is three and three fourths inches 

 long. Two, with human faces and figures, come from Jefferson 



