A Duck Hawk Effigy Pipe	by Jim Roberson
Central States Archaeological Societies 2020 October Journal	Muscatine, Iowa

 

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Figures 1 and 2. The pipe is 3 3/16” long by 1 ½” wide and is 2” in height. It was found near Davenport, Iowa. Photos courtesy of Terry McGuire and published with permission of the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma. The museum accession number is 6124.1144.

This pipe (Figs. 1,2) was found on top of a plowed mound near Davenport, Iowa, around 1900. It most likely came from one of the mounds of the Cook Mound Group that were located close to the Mississippi River on property later occupied by Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company. The mound group was also close to Davenport’s Credit Island and was almost directly across from where the Rock River flows into the Mississippi River in Rock Island County, Illinois. This is a monitor type effigy pipe made in the likeness of a duck hawk and is made of highly ....

 

 

Read the complete column in the Central States Archaeological Societies 2020 October Journal which can be purchased on-line after March 2021