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been a stone in the rough intended for the manufacture 

 of pipes. Pieces had been taken off from three of its 

 edges by cutting grooves on both sides and then break- 

 ing along the grooves. On one side the groove is 

 crooked, as if the part broken off had been intended for 

 an elbow pipe. The two flat sides were somewhat con- 

 vex and smooth and polished, as by wear. It was no 

 doubt brought from the pipe-stone quarry in Minnesota 

 and kept as a precious article by some native, who 

 finally lost it. The small pieces taken from the mounds 

 on the old village site, indicate that those who lived 

 there had communication with the same distant place, 

 either directly or through the channels of primitive 

 trade. All of the pipes found, broken as well as entire, 

 belong to the Siouan type as defined by McGuire.* 



ARTICLES MADE FROM VARIOUS MATERIALS. 



Stone Mnllets. Several implements taken on the site 

 of these mounds must be classed as mallets, or large 

 hammers. These consist of cjdindrical or slightly quad- 

 rangular rounded stones having a groove around the 

 curving surface midway between the two ends (Plate 

 V). Most of these implements were made from brown 

 or red, strong sandstone, but two were of limestone. 

 One consists of a highly ferruginous and tough sand- 

 stone or quartzite, with a bright red matrix. The sand- 

 stone in this specimen and that in some of the others 

 does not resemble any of the local modifications of the 



* Ann. Rep., Smithsonian Institution, 1897, p. 571. 



