. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . over the en-tire globe, and have been found in regular lines or diagrams high upon the face of the rocks in the Himalaya Mountains. They have beenfound on large bowlders among the Alps aud all over Europe; alsoon the stones composing the megalithic monuments of prehistoric man,where the cavities are often polished smooth. They are numerous inScotland aud England on pebbles or small bowlders, and equally so in 662 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSUEM, 1888. the United States. They are found in abundance in Ohio. Their useor purpose i
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . over the en-tire globe, and have been found in regular lines or diagrams high upon the face of the rocks in the Himalaya Mountains. They have beenfound on large bowlders among the Alps aud all over Europe; alsoon the stones composing the megalithic monuments of prehistoric man,where the cavities are often polished smooth. They are numerous inScotland aud England on pebbles or small bowlders, and equally so in 662 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSUEM, 1888. the United States. They are found in abundance in Ohio. Their useor purpose is entirely unknown. The subject forms an interestingstudy. Dr. Eau published an interesting monograph thereon, entitled, Observations on Cup-shaped and other Lapidariau Sculptures, con-tributions to North American Ethnology, vol. V, etc. He inclines togive them a religious rather than a utilitarian character. PIPES AND SMOKINa TUBES. Ko class of aboriginal productions of art exhibit a greater diversityof form than do the pipes of the i)rehistoric man of North
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