754 Catlinite. [July, 
ered by Mr. E. Curtiss under a cairn in Marion county, Kansas. 
Professor J. D. Butler, of Madison, Wisconsin, refers to a pipe 
recently presented to the Wisconsin Historical Society, by Ole 
Rasmussen, which was found in Waupaca county in 1880, ata 
depth of twenty feet beneath the surface of the ground, while 
digging a well." 
From a large number of such pipes, which have been brought 
to my notice, I have selected a few of the most striking forms for 
illustration in this paper. A catlinite pipe in the collection of Mr. 
A. F. Berlin, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, is represented in Fig. 2. 
This specimen was plowed up in a field in the vicinity of a mound 
near Elmira, Stark county, Ill. When found it was entire, but 
falling into the hands of the children of the finder, two pieces 
were broken from the edge of the broad horizontal disk which 
rests on the rectangular base. This pipe, which is carved from @ 
single piece of stone, although not unique in form, may be con- 
sidered a rare type. The illustration is nearly the size of nature, 
the basal portion measuring one and three quarters of an inch in 
length. The stem was fitted in by wrapping the end to pero? 
large orifice, which is scarcely less in diameter than the mouth 0 
the bowl, which latter was doubtless designed.to hold but a smal 
quantity of tobacco, adulterated probably with other herbs, which, 
inhaled in the manner peculiar to the Indians, required but a s™ 
quantity to produce exhilaration or intoxication. Two other pipe 
of the same material and almost identical in form, are in pos 4 
sion of Dr. C. S. Arthur, the disks measuring four inches 1n diam 
eter. In one of these a portion of the stem is carved in the "E 
blance of an animal with one head, two bodies, two tails and si* 
legs. 
1See Am. Antiquarian, Vol. 111, No. 2, p. 141. è 
