12(5 SMO KING-PIPES OP STONE. 



Sixteen of the pipes collected from the graves at Dos Pueblos and La 

 Patera by Dr. Yar-row's party are represented on Plates VII, VIII, IX, and 

 it will be seen that they are more uniform in design and finish than the 

 same number of pipes from any other locality would prove to be. Their 

 principal variation is that of size; the largest specimen measuring 10 J 

 inches in length ; the smallest, 3^ inches. They are made of steatite, tal- 

 cose-slate, or of serpentine. 



Fig. 3, Plate VII, may be taken as a type of this peculiar pattern of 

 smoking-pipes. Like the majority of the series, this specimen is made of 

 steatite. It has a smooth, uniform, perfectly plain surface, circular at the 

 larger end or mouth, which orifice is margined with a narrow, slightly-pro- 

 jecting rim. From the mouth of the pipe extending backwards for about 

 one-third of its length, exclusive of the bone stem or "mouth-piece," the 

 diameter is very nearly uniform ; thence it decreases gradually to the 

 smaller end or base, where the diameter is about one-third that of the 

 opposite end. As a mouth-piece, for the more comfortable contact with 

 the smokers' lips, there is a section of long bone of a bird, securely 

 attached by means of asphaltum, which attachment is aided by the rough- 

 ness of the bore at this part of the tube. This pipe measures 9 inches in 

 total length, and has a diameter of an inch and a half at the mouth. 



Fig. 2, same plate, does not materially differ from the preceding. It is 

 a fraction of an inch less in length, and has no projecting rim at the mouth. 

 The diminution in diameter, unlike the preceding, is uniform from end to 

 end, the variation being from If inches to half an inch. There is in this 

 specimen, also, a bone mouth-piece, fitted very closely to the pipe, but the 

 asphaltum used in securing it is wanting, and there is no trace of any con- 

 siderable quantity having been used. 



A curious feature of this specimen is the presence of a fragment of 

 hoop-iron, about 2 inches in length and 1 in width, placed obliquely in the 

 mouth of the pipe, and projecting from it about one-fourth of an inch. 

 From accumulation of rust apparently, more than through design, this piece 

 of metal has become quite securely fixed. 



Fig. 4, same plate, represents a third specimen of plain steatite tube- 



