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ample of this larger form of clay-pipe figured in Dr. Schoolcraft's 

 " History of the Indian Tribes ;"* was also found within the Cana- 

 dian frontier, in the peninsula lying between Lakes Huron and 

 Erie. It was discovered in an extensive sepulchral ossuary 

 in the township of Beverly, which contained numerous Indian 

 relics, and among others, specimens both of the pyrula perversa and 

 pyrula spirata. Mr. Paul Kane possesses another pipe of the same 

 class, trumpet shaped at the bowl, and unusually well baked, which was 

 dug up in the vicinity of the Sault St. Marie, at the entrance to Lake 

 Superior ; so that this class of relics of the nicotian art, appears to be 

 pecularily characteristic of the Canadian frontier. Some, at least, 

 of these Canadian pipes are of no very remote antiquity, but it is 

 curious to note that in form they bear a nearer resemblance than 

 any figured or described among American antiquities, to such as are 

 introduced in ancient Mexican paintings ;f nor are examples wanting 

 of a more antique style of art. One specimen figured by Mr. 

 Squier in his " Ahoriginal Monuments of the State of New York, % 

 is thus described: " It was found within an enclosure in Jefferson 

 County. It is of fine red clay, smoothly moulded, and two serpents 

 rudely imitated, are represented coiling round the bowl. Bushels of 

 fragments of pipes have been found within the same enclosure. 

 Some appear to have been worked in the form of the human head, 

 others in representations of animals, and others still in a variety of 

 regular forms. • • • Some pipes of precisely the same 

 material and of identical workmanship with those found in the 

 ancient enclosures, have been discovered in modern Indian graves in 

 Cayuga County. One of these in the form of a bird, and having 

 eyes made of silver inserted in the head, is now in the possession of 

 the author." 



Pipes of baked clay of a character more nearly approximating to 

 the sculpture of the mounds, are figured in Messrs. Squier and 

 Davis's work. In style of art, however, they are greatly inferior. 

 Of two of these (Figs. 76, 77, page 194,) it is remarked : " They 

 were ploughed up in Virginia at a point nearly opposite the mouth 

 of the Hocking river, where there are abundant traces of an ancient 

 people, in the form of mounds, embankments, &c. One represents a 

 human head, with a singular head-dress, closely resembling some of 

 those worn by the idols and sculptures of Mexico. The other re- 

 presents some animal coiled together, and is executed with a good deal 



*Vol. I. Plate VIII. Eigs. 5 and 6. 



tLord King- borough's Mexican Antiquities. Vol. IV. Plates 17, 57. 

 X Plate 76. Fig. 9. 



