appearance, when found, of having been lightly coated with a 

 plumbiferous substance. Another example carved in the form of 



Fig. 14.— Serpent Pipe. 

 a frog (Fig. 15) from a light-gray pipe stone, was exhumed from a 

 mound in the same group with that which yielded the original of 

 Fig. 10. Associated with the former were two copper axes and 

 five skeletons, of which three faced the east and the others the 

 west. The pipe was found with the latter two. 



Having incidentally heard of a pipe in the form of a bear, 

 which was said to have been found in a mound in Muscatine 

 county, Iowa, by a laboring man, the Rev. Mr. J. Gass, a member 

 of the Academy, finally, with some difficulty, discovered the 



Fig. 15.— Frog Pipe. 



owner and succeeded in purchasing the specimen from him for a 

 paltry sum (see Fig. 16). The peculiarity of this pipe, which is 

 made of a gray trap rock, unpolished, is that, unlike most other 

 platform pipes, it possesses a straight base which is not drilled 

 and of which the front projection is lacking, the mouth of the 

 animal forming the mouth-piece for the smoker. 



The most remarkable specimens in the Davenport collection, 

 however, are the two elephant pipes recently brought to light, 

 and which have been too hastily pronounced spurious by critics 



