10 BULLETIN OF WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. VOL. 4, NOS. 1-2. 
Chelydridw. The entire absence of marginal scutes to the cara- 
pace is a noticeable omission. The eyes had been carved ; but 
most of the right one has been lost by a cleavage of part of the 
head and the surface of this cleavage has been subsequently fin- 
ished by pecking. The right hind foot shows four toes, the other 
feet are not digited. 
The Indian who carved this pipe was unquestionably familiar 
in a general way with some turtle and perhaps from the abund- 
ance of his knowledge, and with a lack of scientific accuracy united 
members of two families (probably the Painted turtle or Mud 
turtle and the Snapping turtle) in one individual. 
This pipe was recently acquired by purchase, through her son, 
of Mrs. Merrill of Burnett Junction, Dodge County, Wis., in 
whose possession it had remained since it was plowed up in 1876 
on the A. G. Young farm at that town. It was a surface find, the 
nearest Indian mounds being about a mile distant. 
The accompanying illustrations obviate the necessity of a de- 
tailed verbal description. The pipe weighs 9 ounces and is carved 
from compact reddish brown argellite, finely laminated parallel to 
the plane of its major diameters. It is 122 mm. (4/^6 inches) long, 
30 mm. (1^32 inches) in thickness through the body, with a raised 
rim to the bowl averaging about 5 mm. inches) in height. 
The forward half of this rim had been broken away when found. 
The tail formed the stem and has been broken away leaving its 
extreme length, from the posterior point of the carapace, 27 mm 
(1 J/Hjinch). The original length is indeterminable. The stem hole 
is 5 mm. (Jfgjnch) in diameter, practically circular in section, 
showing longitudinal grooves and pitting the cavity of the bowl 
close to its bottom on the side opposite to its entrance, showing 
that it was over-bored. The bowd is 19 mm. (34 m -) m diameter 
at the top, practically circular in transverse section, constricting to 
the hemispherical bottom. It measures 30 mm. (i^in.) in 
depth from the top of the raised rim. The lower two-thirds of 
the bowd cavity shows both vertical and horizontal scratches not 
obliterated, apparently because of their depth, by the smoothing: 
and polishing process to which it has evidently been subjected and 
which has left the upper third quite smooth. The surface of the 
turtle has been smoothed and polished but not to the extent of 
removing all traces of the pittings made in pecking it into form. 
Since finding, some one has re-scratched the suture lines on 
the carapace about two of the scutes ; but fortunately not to an 
extent to entirely obliterate the original surfaces of these grooves 
and render questionable whether any of the lines are recent inter- 
