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been broken away from the bottom of the sixth and seventh holes. 
Guire* says that these holes, usually from one to six in number^ 
were for the purpose of attaching tassels and strings to prevent loss in 
the snow. It is possible, too, that feathers may have been thrust 
through these holes for ornamental or ceremonial purposes. 
Professor Perkinsf has described a pipe from the Champlain valley 
with a perforated keel, but differing in other details from this pipe. 
The opening of the stem hole has a diameter of five-sixteenths of 
an inch, gradually narrowing to about half that size. It was proba. 
bly drilled evenly at first, and afterwards the opening enlarged by 
gouging to admit a stem of wood or bone. The bowl is missing, and 
was probably quite small. The boring connecting with stem hole is 
three-eighths of an inch in diameter and very evenly drilled. The 
upper part of the stem on both sides of the bowl shows, on close 
examination a number of small facets, while the sides are worn and 
smooth. 
This pipe was probably smoked with the aid of a long wooden 
stem, and from the size of the bowl must have been more for cere- 
monial use than personal enjoyment. 
This is a typical Micmac pipe, and one of the most pronounced 
types of aboriginal pipes, t 
Stone Pipe Bowl Without Stem. — Some months ago Mr. R. 
Jardine, a member of this Society, told me that a number of years ago 
at Sheffield, in Sunbury County, he had seen stone pipe bowls which 
he thought were of Indian origin. I had therefore thought it probable 
that specimens would be found. Not long afterward Mr. Archie Hay 
placed in my hands a stone pipe bowl (fig. 2, pi. ix) only partially 
completed, and so of very considerable interest. It was found by him 
on the site of the old Indian village of Meductic, and the material is 
a light brown argillaceous freestone (sandstone). The block from 
which it was formed gives evidence of having originally been part 
of a celt, though the material is not the best for such a purpose. 
In length it is \\ inches, in height 2 inches, and 1J inches wide. 
It was evidently the intention to reduce the height, but the work was 
only partially done. The bowl and stem hole have both been roughly 
♦Am. Aboriginal Pipes and Smoking Customs, 1899, p. 039. 
t Pop. Science Monthly, Dec. 1893. 
*Am. Pipes and Smoking Customs, 1899, p. 630. 
