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Fig. 184 is a curved pipe with a bowl terminating in a rim which 

 is nearly rectangular, but with slightly convex edges. The top is 

 i| inches across, and the full length is 5f inches. There are grooves 

 on the edge of the flaring rim. This was found in the town of Clay, 

 not far from the Oneida river. 



Fig. 185 shows a characteristic pipe from Jefferson county^ with 

 a human face on the rear of the bowl. It is much compressed, 

 making the face somewhat thin. The eyes are raised ellipses, and 

 there are small elliptic indentations around the rim. The long 

 diameter of the bowl is 2 inches, and the short ij inches. Clay 

 pipes are common and variable in that county, and this is a moder- 

 ately early form. 



Fig. 186 is a fine pipe from the Otstungo or Minden site, and 

 more than half of the stem has been restored. In this form it is 

 6J inches long. There are notched lines on the stem, and grooved 

 and beaded lines on the front of the bowl. In a double niche, on 

 the back of the bowl^ is a child's bust with uplifted hands. An ex- 

 perienced archeologist^ on seeing this, at once exclaimed that it was 

 the niche of a saint, which it certainly suggests. 



Fig. 187 is part of the bowl of a handsome red pipe, from a stock- 

 ade near Baldwinsville. The upper part is rectangular, contracting 

 toward the base, and ornamented with diagonal lines and dots. 

 Below this it. is circular, with horizontal moldings. The arrange- 

 ment is very tasteful. 



Fig. 188 is a handsome Mohawk pipe from the early fort on 

 Garoga creek, in Ephratah, Fulton county. The curving stem is 

 mostly lacking. The bowl is if inches wide. Above the bold and 

 well-formed face is a head dress of netting. 



Fig. 189 shows a pipe of unusual form from Montgomery county. 

 The rim is slightly notched, and the bowl gradually expands below 

 this for half an inch, as gradually contracting again below the angle 

 thus formed. On this angle is a perforation, and there are five 

 horizontal grooves on the front of the bowl. This is from the 

 Otstungo site, and is highly polished. 



Fig. 190 has the bowl square on top, and expanded below the 

 angular contractipn, The stem joins the bowl at an abrupt angle, 



