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Two views of “cloud blower” stone pipe found at the “Indian Hill” site (41KL14) overlooking Cayo del Grullo in the mid-1930s by an amateur archeologist, Clyde Reed. Reed reported that he dug up 22 skeletons from single- and multiple-interment graves. According to Reed, the pipe “contained about 250 c.c. of coarse bitumen and ashes” which he believed meant that it was a “fire making device.” It is not clear that by “bitumen”Reed meant asphaltum, which of course would have quickly melted with heat. The mouthpiece is a polished and heat-darkened bone tube about 5 centimeters in length which was later identified as a section of a human ulna. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society 9, Plate 41.
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