1883.] Catlinite. 755 
Mr. J. P. Jones, of Keytesville, Missouri, possesses an example 
(Fig. 3) somewhat similar in shape to the preceding, with the ex- 
Fic. 3.—From a tumulus in Boone county, Mo. 
ception that the platform is extended beyond the disk and tapers 
toa rounded point. A scroll or zigzag ornament is incised on 
either side. This specimen was taken froma small burial mound 
in Boone county, Mo. Another pipe, made of hard sandstone, of 
a somewhat analogous, but modified form, was found in Chariton 
county in the same State, and is owned by the same gentleman. 
A pipe made of a light-colored stone, almost identical in form 
with Fig. 2, is in the ccllection of Mr. G. S. Mepham, of St. 
Louis, Mo. This was taken from a mound near Greenville, 
Illinois (see also Fig. 195, p. 49, Archzol. Collections Nat. Mus., 
Rau 
Mr. Charles C. Jones, Jr., of Augusta, Georgia, remarks in his 
excellent work on the Indians of that State: “ Thus far the writer 
has failed to discover a single instance of the use, among the 
Georgia Indians, in ancient times, of the genuine red pipestone or 
catlinite.”! In a recent communication, however, he sends me a. 
sketch of a small catlinite pipe, found in May, 1877, on the right 
bank of the Savannah river, in Columbia county, Georgia, Fig. 
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c. 4.—From Columbia county, Ga. : 
Lom ts the Ba in its actual proportions. “In the same 
locality,” writes Col. Jones, “was picked up a large cylindrical 
1“ Antiquities of the Southern Indians,” p. 407. 
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