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This excerpt from "A Catlinite Hopewell Platform Pipe" published in the 2024 Central States Archaeological Societies 2024 January Journal Dr. Sandy B Carter
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made of Ohio Feurt Hill pipestone (Ref. 4, p.198).
For over 40 years I have admired Hopewell platform pipes and the polished pipestone materials they are made of, with colors including green/gray, reddish gray, cream to tan and red. The red pipes are the most eye catching to me, and I am proud to be the curator of the catlinite pipe shown in Figure 1.
The pipe was found in Kankakee County, Illinois, south of Chicago’s Cook County in northeastern Illinois. Bill Brockman obtained it in the 1960s from Hubert C. Wachtell, the editor of the first two editions of Who’s Who in Indian Relics (1960 and 1968). I subsequently acquired the pipe from Brockman. It is small at 1?” (W) x 1 ½” (H), and the tubular bowl is encircled by three incised horizontal undulating lines (~~~~~~~~), like one of the 17 catlinite pipes found at Tremper Mound with incised “zigzag lines” (Ref. 1, p. 201). This pipe dates to approximately 50 BC and is a transition between V-based platform pipes (150 BC- 50 BC, Fig. 2) and classic curved-base monitor platform pipes (50 BC- AD 300, Fig. 3, Ref. 2, p. 700).
Hopewell pipes were infrequently made of catlinite pipestone. Farnsworth, et al. in a study of 169 Illinois region pipes (includes Illinois counties and eastern Iowa and southwestern Indiana counties) noted only 5% were made of catlinite (Ref. 2, p. 703). In contrast, 55% of Illinois region pipes were made from gray Sterling pipestone (originating from the Sterling quarry in northwest Illinois in the Illinois River valley on the lower portion of the Rock River), 34% were made from local limestones, claystones, dolomites and shale (Ref. 2, pp. 701 and 705), and no Illinois Hopewell pipes were made of Ohio Feurt Hill pipestone (Ref. 4, p.198).
In the Ohio Valley where the Hopewell culture was 100 years later in appearing than in the Illinois Valley, platform pipe caches infrequently include ...
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