HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 



more Museum a drawing of this specimen shows the platform as 

 straight and the stem end squared, but the rear end is shown as an 

 oval. Bones of the great blue heron consisting of the ends were 

 found sparingly at the Baum village-site. 



Sculpture of the Sand-hill Crane. — The only sculpture of the sand- 

 hill crane taken from the mounds of Ohio is shown in plate iv, 4. 

 Like that of the great blue heron, just described, this sculpture forms 

 a class by itself. The artist's conception is well portrayed in the splen- 

 did feather-markings of wings and tail, in the long neck and head, 

 and in depicting the habit of the bird in using its strong bill for digging 

 in the earth in search of food. A unique feature of this pipe is the red 

 crest on the head of the bird, painted at the time it was made and 

 retaining its color unfaded. The keen eyes are set with copper, and 

 the entire appearance of the bird is pleasing and true to nature. The 

 specimen is made of dark-gray pipestone. The platform is gracefully 

 curved from front to back and is 3^4 inches long, 1% inch wide, and 

 square at each end. 



Skeletal remains of the sand-hill crane were not recorded at the 

 Baum village or at the Gartner village, but a later examination of the 

 cut ends of leg-bones taken from the latter site fully identified the 

 bird as having been present in that village. However, the bones of 

 such birds as the crane and the blue heron were well adapted to use 

 as ornaments and implements, and therefore seldom are found in a 

 perfect state, being usually worked into artifacts. 



Plain Platform Pipes. — The plain platform pipes taken from the 

 Tremper mound are very interesting. They were associated with the 

 effigy pipes, and so far as the platform is concerned, are, with the 

 exception of the several specimens made of red pipestone, exactly 

 like them. These latter, while of the platform type, have the bowls 

 much larger and display a greater variation in curve of base, some 

 being practically straight, some slightly curved, and others extremely 

 curved. The small plain platform type resembles the efhgy pipes in 

 every way, except that the bowls are usually plain. A representation 

 of the plain pipe is shown in plate v, 2. 



SUMMARY 



A brief resume of the explorations of the Tremper mound shows 

 the following prominent features, which, it is believed, add materially 

 to the fund of information concerning the great Hopewell culture of 

 prehistoric inhabitants of Ohio, and which, it is hoped, will prove to 

 be an important chapter in the history of the aboriginal peoples of 

 the Ohio valley. 



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