Clay Pipe (70a1151)

**Clay smoking pipe with frog effigy** Location: Town Creek site (31Mg2-3), Montgomery County, North Carolina. Period: Mississippian (AD 1150-1400). Material: ceramic. Dimensions: length, 46.2 mm; width, 28.6; height, 42.9 mm. Notes: Catalog no. 70a1151, North Carolina Archaeological Collection, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Illustrated in *Town Creek Indian Mound: A Native American Legacy,* by Joffre L. Coe, University of North Carolina Press, 1995, Figure 11.2. This specimen was reconstructed from a fragment of the pipe, and the frog effigy is largely conjectural. Model by Steve Davis.