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Mound Pipes. 



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and is believed to portray the male of the pinnated grouse. In 

 the same mound were found portions of several human skeletons, 

 about two hundred shell beads, five copper axes, one of them " a 

 very smoothly wrought specimen, showing very distinct traces of 

 the cloth in which it had been wrapped, and some portions of 

 which were still adhering to the copper," 1 and another bird-shaped 





Fig. 9.— Goose (?) Pipe, 

 pipe of red pipe stone, furnished with eyes of pearl. The speci- 

 men shown in Fig. 9 may have been meant for the wild goose, 

 or possibly the loon. It is formed of sandstone, and was found 

 in Louisa county, Iowa. 



About one mile below Davenport, on the right bank of the 

 Mississippi, the original of Fig. 10, fashioned from a light-gray 

 pipe stone, was discovered in a mound at a depth of six feet, 



I Hog Pipe. 



associated with five very old copper, cloth-wrapped axes and two 

 pieces of galena. Above these objects, one and a half feet from 

 the top of the mound, were found two adult skeletons, evidently 

 belonging to an intrusive burial, as they were accompanied by 



1 Vide Proceedings of the Davenport Academy, Vol. 1, p. 108. 



