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STONE PIPES 
The unfinished specimen illustrated in Plate XXIII, figure 8, was the 
only stone pipe found at Uren. It is about 2f inches long, If inches high 
and 1 inch wide. Both bowl and stem are nearly square in cross-section. 
The mouth of the conical bowl cavity is f-inch wide. The stem hole is 
also conical and about ^inch in diameter. Marks of rubbing can be 
seen on all sides of this pipe. The stone was cracked, possibly in the 
course of drilling the stem hole. When finished it would probably have 
been of the type McGuire calls monitor. 1 
Stone pipes were probably not as scarce at other sites of the same 
culture as they were here. The writer found a piece cut from the stem of a 
soapstone pipe 2 at the site on the Bertrand farm and a whole stone pipe 
was discovered at the same site, by the late E. Coventry of Woodstock, Ont. 
EARTHENWARE PIPES 
Of twenty-five fragmentary earthenware pipes twelve are stems, 
thirteen others bowls and fragments of bowls, some retaining part of the 
stem. The pipes are mostly crude. Very few are ornamented, and only 
one has ornamentation on the stem. 
Most of the pipes appear to have been of McGuire's monitor type, or 
else derivatives, of which at least two can be distinguished. The specimen 
seen in Plate XXIII, figure 11, nearly approaches the typical form in having 
had a prow-like projection apparently at the front of the bowl. Five 
other specimens seem more suggestive of the form illustrated in McGuire's 
Figures 89 and 90, except that the bowls in the Uren specimens were more 
nearly at right angles to the stem. On at least three specimens (Plate 
XXIII, Figures 11, 13, and 15), the bowl appears to have been at right angles 
to the stem; on the bowl illustrated in figure 10, at an angle of about 40 
degrees. 
About one-half of all the fragments seem to have belonged to cylindrical 
bowls of the same type as the one seen in figure 10. One small fragment 
seems to be part of an ovoid bowl. Another has a slight lip, suggesting 
that it may also be part of a small pottery vessel. The small, crude speci- 
men, seen in Plate XXIII, figure 9, is undoubtedly a toy made by a child. 
The bowl cavity is triangular and connects with a round stemhole. 
Figure 3. Cross-sections of pipe stems. 
At least seven of the pipes had short stems; some of the badly broken 
specimens may have had long ones. The longest, measuring from where 
the bowl begins, is about If inches, the shortest about 1| inches long. The 
specimen seen in Plate XXIII, figure 13, is rather thick and stubby. Three 
stems are round, or nearly round in cross-section (figure 13); two are oval; 
one is diamond-shaped; two are curvilinear-triangular (Figure 3, a); one is 
1 Se«FigB. 89 and 90, “Pipes and Smoking Customs,” Rept. of the U.S. Nat. Mua. for 1897, Washington, 1899. 
•Cat. No. VIII-F-15888, Nat. Mus. of Canada. 
