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  Barber, Edwin A.
  1882
Mound pipes.
Amer. Naturalist 16(4): 265-281. 21 figs. Apr. 1882.
–Describes (but does not illustrate) examples of supposed manatee sculptures among a collection of stone tobacco-pipes collected from Indian mounds in the Mississippi Valley (267-268). Henshaw (1883) concluded that these did not represent manatees.

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   1882Barber, E.A. (mound pipes, ?manatee effigies)
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   1882Barber, E.A. (supposed manatee effigies among stone tobacco pipes; Mississippi Valley)
   1882Barber, E.A. (mound pipes, ?manatee effigies)