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existed," which consists of " a stick of wood grasped in the 

 hand by the middle, and turned round inside a wall of clay 

 formed by the other hand or by another workman." * 



Among the most characteristic specimens of ancient 

 American pottery are the Pipes. Some of these are simple 

 bowls, smaller indeed, but otherwise not unlike a common 

 everyday pipe, from which they differ however in having 

 generally no stem, the mouth having apparently been applied 

 direct to the bowl. Others are highly ornamented, and 

 many are spirited representations of monsters or of animals, 

 such as the beaver, otter, wild cat, elk, bear, wolf, panther, 

 raccoon, opossum, squirrel, manatee, eagle, hawk, heron, owl, 

 buzzard, raven, swallow, parroquet, duck, grouse, and many 

 others. The most interesting of these, perhaps, is the 

 Manatee or Lamantin, of which seven representations have 

 been found in the mounds of Ohio. These are no mere rude 

 sculptures, about which there might easily be a mistake, but 

 " the truncated head, thick semicircular snout, peculiar nos- 

 trils, tumid, furrowed upper lip, singular feet or fins, and 

 remarkable moustaches, are all distinctly marked, and render 

 the recognition of the animal complete. "f This curious 

 animal is not at present found farther than the shores of 

 Florida, a thousand miles away. 



ORNAMENTS. 



The ornaments which have been found in the mounds 

 consist of beads, shells, necklaces, pendants, plates of mica, 

 bracelets, gorgets, etc. The number of beads is some- 

 times quite surprising. Thus the celebrated Grave Creek 

 mound contained between three and four thousand shell- 

 beads, besides about two hundred and fifty ornaments of 

 mica, several bracelets of copper, and various articles carved 



* Squier and Davis, I.e. p. 195. f Squier and Davis, I.e. p. 252. 



