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PLATFORM PIPES The 1915 Tremper Mound excavation also produced several platform pipes with simple round bowls with flared rims. The majority of the Tremper Mound pipes were carved in various types of pipestone. It was generally believed that all of the Tremper pipes were carved from Ohio pipestone. But Emerson reports that, of the Tremper pipes sampled and tested with a portable infrared mineral analyzer system, 16% of the pipes were made from Catlinite from the pipestone quarries in southwest Minnesota. Although there is a good source of pipestone only a few miles away to the east of the site, this is another example of how the Hopewell culture often preferred the use exotic materials from distant locations. All of the platform pipes in this picture are on display in the Ohio Historical Center's collection. They represent the largest pipes in the Tremper Mound cache of pipes.
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