AMERICAN ABORIGINAL PIPES AND SMOKING CUSTOMS. 379 



ANCIENT ORNAMENTAL I'OEBLO POT- 

 TERY PIPE 



Sikyatki, Arizona. 



Cal. No. IseiSl L".S N.M Collected by Dr. J. 

 Walter Fewkes. 



These thread marks look as though the thread wrapped around the 

 plastic clay had beeu left on while the pottery was going throngh 

 the cooking process, being burned off in 

 the baking. 



Fig. 8, from Sikyatki, and also made of 

 pottery like the others, is a pipe of a dull 

 gray color. It is elliptical in cross section, 

 and though a part of the bowl upon one 

 side has been broken away, sufficient re- 

 mains to show its original form. On the 

 broader sides of this pipe upon the band 

 there is a slightly raised surface, upon 

 which are intersecting lines, evidently cut 

 into the earthenware subsecjuently to its 

 baking. Tins specimen looks as though 



the incised marks were intended to rei^resent conventional birds' wings, 

 though It may well be that some other significance attaches to it. 



Fig. 9 is from the pueblo of Taos, in New Mexico. Dr. Fewkes 

 obtained it by i)urchase, and therefore it is impossible to speak posi- 

 tively concerning its age, 

 ?'WilWP^P^''^^^Zif^^f^ .^^ though it belongs to the 



same type as the preced- 

 ing specimens, andif of a 

 different period the char- 

 acteristics remain con- 

 stant. It is of glazed 

 black pottery, containing 

 a slight admixture of finely pounded shell, its hues of ornamenta- 

 tion being cut through the surface subsequent to the firing of the 

 clay. It is 6 inches long, having a greatest diameter of 1 inch, and 

 a circular cross section. 



Fig. 10, a light gray earth- 

 enware from Nambe, New Mex- 

 ico, was also obtained by Dr. 

 Fewkes by purchase. It is 3 

 inches long and for two-thirds 

 of its length is 2 inches wide, 

 due to the wing like projections 

 attached to the elongated 

 conoidal tube. These wings, 

 while apparently intended for 

 ornament, would answer perfectly 

 for holding the pipe when heated. 

 The type is primitive and common to the territory of the cliff dwellers. 

 Fig. 11, a hard-burned red pottery tube from Jemez Springs, New 

 Me.xico, collected by Mr. J. M. Shields, belongs to the form common 



Fiji. 9. 



PUEBLO POTTERY PIPE. 



Taos, New Mexico. 



Cat No nSSOl, U.S N.M. Collecteil hy Dr. J. W.ilter Fewke 



PUEBLO POTTERY PIPE. 



Nambe, New Mexico. 



Cil. .No. n6;i95. U S.N.M. CollecteJ by Dr. J VValte 



