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There is just one important exception to this statement, and it is that 

 relating to the cruder form of effigies found on platform stems. On 

 early Iroquois sites effigies of this kind are found in the so-called 



Fig. 20 Diagram showing how a pipe bowl might be sunken in a stemmed 

 base, thus becoming the prototype of the monolithic monitor pipe 



lizard or panther pipes. The platform, however, has disappeared 

 and the bowl and the effigy have a different orientation. The effig\' 

 seems to have clung to a narrow 



strip of the platform which appears ^ , 



in the shape of a small stem, and 

 the stem hole is drilled in the back 

 of the effigy, the bowl of the pipe 

 being drilled down through the top 

 of the shoulders into the body of 

 the effigy. The drilling shows in 

 most cases a large conical or 

 beveled hole. Other effigy forms 

 show no traces of the platform or 

 rod, as in the case of the lizard 

 pipes which perch upon their 

 own tails, but are conventionalized 

 forms of birds, generally an owl, 

 having the body at the shoulders 

 drilled for a bowl and the stem 

 hole drilled in the lower part of 

 the back (see plate 48). Often- 

 times in the front of the pipe a con- 

 ventionalized projection is made to resemble the feet. These bear 

 a perforation from which, no doubt, were suspended ornaments. 



Fig. 21 Typical lizard or otter 

 pipe with vaselike bowl. From 

 an Iroquoian site. x7A 



