Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . aining three, all of the plain form and very similar toFig. 90, are from the last-named mound, the Hilltopmound, and a burial near Circleville, respectively. While all pipes of the culture, in so far as observed,are of the platform type, both plain and effigy, so closelyassociated with the Hopewell culture, they have severalvery fixed characteristics which distinguish them at aglance from the Hopewell product. Instead of theusual curved platform, we find a perfectly flat or levelbase, of comparative thinness. To accommodate the Exploration of the M
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . aining three, all of the plain form and very similar toFig. 90, are from the last-named mound, the Hilltopmound, and a burial near Circleville, respectively. While all pipes of the culture, in so far as observed,are of the platform type, both plain and effigy, so closelyassociated with the Hopewell culture, they have severalvery fixed characteristics which distinguish them at aglance from the Hopewell product. Instead of theusual curved platform, we find a perfectly flat or levelbase, of comparative thinness. To accommodate the Exploration of the Mound City Group 577 boring of the stem-hole, and to give added strength, alongitudinal ridge always was left on the top center ofthe stem. The single specimen of an effigy pipe of theculture (Fig. 83) has the peculiarity of having the effigyfacing away from the smoker — the opposite of thepipes from the Hopewell mounds. FLINT AND STONE CELTS Fig. 91 illustrates three typical celts chipped fromblack flint from mound number 23. The degree of. Fig. 91. Celts made of flint highly polished polish ranges from that incident to fashioning the bitor cutting-edge, to those in which the chipping is ingreat part eliminated over the entire specimen. Anoccasional partly polished flint celt is found in the vil-lages of the Fort Ancient peoples, but on the whole they Vol. XXXI—37. 578 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications may be regarded as being characteristic of the intrusiveburials of Mound City and of the culture representedby them. In Fig. 92 are presented two typical chippedand polished celts of black flint and, in the center, achipped and polished celt of jadeite, from the Hilltopmound.
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