278 Mound Pipes. [April, 



generally, so far as I can ascertain, on the surface, having in all 

 probability been carried from the mound region by roving bands 

 of Indians of a more recent period. ,In the National Museum at 

 Washington, are three examples, which were derived respectively 

 from Ohio, Maryland and Illinois. Another was discovered in 

 the valley of the Delaware river in the State of New Jersey. It 

 is of the plain " monitor " form, made of a light-brown or choco- 

 late-colored stone, and is now owned by Mr. Wm. S. Vaux, of 

 Philadelphia, Pa. Hon. R. S. Robertson, of Fort Wayne, Indi- 

 ana, possesses a pipe of the same form, from a mound in Laport 

 county of the same State, which was found in connection with a 

 copper chisel, two copper needles, four flints, some fragments of 

 pottery and a single skeleton. Two other pipes from Southern 

 Ohio, in the same collection, are cylindrical bowls which have 

 been broken from the curved platforms and put to further use by 

 drilling stem-holes in the sides. One of these shows an opening 

 in the base where it was broken from the stem, the hole being 

 plugged to render it serviceable. The other example has a por- 

 tion of the platform still attached, which has been smoothed or 

 polished at the point of fracture. In the collection of Dr. C. S. 

 Arthur, of Portland, Ind., are also three curved base pipes with 

 plain bowls, two of which were ploughed up, and the third taken 

 from a mound, in that State. 



Fig. 19.— "Dog"(?) Pipe. 

 In a mound at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, associated with 

 pieces of mica, an interesting platform pipe was discovered. Hon. 

 Horace Beach, who sends me the original, regards it as de- 

 cidedly Egyptian in general appearance, and terms it the "dog(?) 

 pipe." It represents the head of some animal, possibly the 

 mountain sheep or goat, and is made of a soft, heavy, dark-brown 

 stone, somewhat resembling Catlinite. The peculiarity of this 

 specimen is that the face looks away from the smoker. As may 

 be seen in the illustration (Fig. 19); the anterior end of the plat- 



