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is about the length of my thumb and almost as tall. The under part is carved with a human face and the place where the tobacco is put in is round and flat like the Omaha pipe of the sacred buffalo hide and forms the back of the head. In appearance it looks like coiled hair like coiled hair of the Moke' girls. The stem is wound round and round with sinew to keep it from splitting. The pipe and stem are fastened together with a long string, one end going around the groove between the top of the bowl and the back of the head of the carving, and the other end is tied close to the mouth-piece of the stem so that the string runs the full length of the stem and bowl. The most curious thing about this pipe is this string. Strung upon it are seven native made beads of shell about the size of a small hazelnut and six copper tubes. These, I think, are native copper hammered out. Note the numbers seven and six. The copper tubes are of uneven length and shows