the Missouri and Mississippi, Called the Cote.au
du Prairie. Pipes were also made from clay,
tempered with some silicious or felspathique
material, similar to that used in their ancient
earthenware.
Opoaguna Algonquin {Fig. ll)^-The “composition
of this pipe is d compact" brown. day, tempered
with a fine silicious matter, and dried in
the sun, not baked in a potter’s oyeri. Thd.exterior
is stained black, and bears a certain gloss,
not a glazing. The bowl has been Formed by
hand, arid is rude: The principal point of skill
is evinced in the twist ornamenting the exferior
of the bowl. Locality, Genesee river valle f V.
Fig. ÜÜ
• Opoagam Aztec (Pig. 12)—The material is. a
■ species of tcitp cotta, or reddish earthenware,
to fracture discloses, very minute shining particles,
which appear to be mica. Probably the
W e d ie n t used to temper the clay, was pounded
granite The features resemble, very strikingly,
|,„)Sc of Vesico and Central America. Onondaga
county. "
Fig. 13.
Opwgum lberic {Fig. 13).-Material, a slate
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