copper inserted in the hole. This tube still projects about 
an eighth of an inch beyond the end of the pipe, and it is 
probable that the lips were applied to such a tube in smoking 
this variety of pipe. The absence of stain from copper within 
and around the holes in the mound pipes, would lead to 
the supposition that a quill or straw may have been generally 
used ; as, indeed, is the case with the Indians of the north- 
west coast in smoking such pipes as Nos. 26 to 33, Case E 5. 
The mound pipe. No. 4, Case C 34, however, is very much 
stained at the hole, and was probably used with an inserted 
tube of copper. 
Upon Tablet 20 is a wedge-shaped copper hatchet, appa- 
rently cast ; it has not been exposed to the action of fire since 
it was cast, and it does not resemble the other copper objects 
taken from the altars " in condition. Probably it should not 
be regarded as a relic of the mound-builders. 
Upon Tablets 21 and 22 are some bronze and copper objects, 
from Peru, for comparison. 
D 19. 
Upon Tablet 6 are fragments of one of the mound " altars " 
of burnt clay. 
Upon Tablet 7 are pieces of galena. 
Upon Tablets 11 to 13 are fragments of marine shells. 
Upon Tablets 14 and 15 are fragments of fresh-water shells. 
Upon Tablets 16 to 19 are pieces of elk's antler, noticed at 
page 1 10."^* 
Upon Tablets 20 and 21, in box No. 27, and in glass dishes, 
Nos. 28, 29, and 31 are burnt human and animal bones, from 
the " altar " mounds. 
In the glass dishes Nos. 25 and 32 are human and animal 
bones, from the burial mounds. 
In the glass dishes Nos. 23, 24, 26, and 33 are fragments of 
stone smoking-pipes, much calcined. 
In the glass dish No. 22 are burnt reptilian bones and 
cetacean teeth. 
No. 30 is part of a block of ferruginous sandstone, found 
in one of the Ohio mounds. It has been broken off from 
* Upon looking to page no, I find that the material, through an oversight, 
is termed red-deer's^ instead of elk's, antler. The red deer {Cervus elaphus) 
is not found in America. — E. T. S. 
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