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SMOKING -PIPES OF STONE. 



Fig. 43 represents a very marked 

 specimen of these tubular pipes, not 

 in being highly decorated or elabor- 

 ately carved — it is, on the contrary, 

 perfectly plain in this respect — but 

 in its variance in the direction of the 

 usual character of the pipes found in 

 the interior of the country and along 

 the Atlantic coast, where we find, as 

 a rule, the bowl and stem of smoking- 

 pipes, not in a continuous line, but 

 at an angle. Of all the pipes here de- 

 scribed, this comes nearest to the form 

 for comfortable smoking as judged 

 from a modern smoker's standpoint. 

 £ The bowl proper projects at an angle 

 "" of about 45° when holding the stem 

 ' 1 or smaller end in a horizontal position. 

 At the junction of the bowl and stem, 

 on the under or outer side, is an 

 elongated oval hole cut in the pipe 

 very near the surface, leaving a nar- 

 row exterior band by which by means 

 of a cord the pipe could be readily 

 suspended to the dress or person of 

 its owner when not in use. At the 

 bottom of the bowl, on one side, is 

 an elongated oval hole, which has the 

 appearance of being a flaw in the 

 mineral rather than the result of ac- 

 cident when shaping the specimen, 

 or of long usage. It has been closed 

 with asphaltum. This pipe has also 

 the characteristic bone mouthpiece 

 retained in the majority of the specimens. It was collected by Mi - . 



