382 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



by Charles Aldrich, is made of black ])ottery, the clay having been 

 mixed with a large proportion of sand. It is burned extremely hard 

 and molded by hand, the stem hole being made by burning out a stalk 

 of grass left in the plastic clay. 



TUBULAR PIPES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS GENERALLY. 



There is in the U. S. National Museum collection a black pottery 

 specimen of the tube, about the shape of a cigar and the size of one (Cat. 

 No. 47759) from San Juan, New Mexico, which is in the Abbott Collec- 

 tion. It is of a dull black color, resembling stone; the upper rim of 

 the bowl, having been cracked, is neatly repaired or reinforced by bind- 

 ing it around with fine sinew thread wrapped until it has formed quite 

 a band. This mode of repair is primitive and interesting as being a 

 probable survival of ancient methods. 



Another and unique pipe is a tube in the U. S. National Museum 

 having a square exterior, and is made of black glazed pottery. It was 



collected by Col. 

 ^ ""~^\ James Stevenson at 



Santa Clara, New 

 Mexico, and has a 

 rude arrow incised 

 on opposite sides of 

 ^''- ^^ the tube, the other 



TUBULAR IMPLEMENT, PHOBAIU.V PIPE. S 1 d e S h a V i U g thC 



Compact alate. , , , • 



rude ornamentation 



Boono Couuty, West Virginia. n ^ /-. -vx 



Cat.No..,m3,U.S.N.M. CoUect^ by W. C. Norris. ^f a bOW (Cat. NO. 



47492). 



Fig. 13 is a tubular implement, of a compact variety of slate, collected 

 by Mr. W. C. Norris from a mound in Boone County, West Virginia. 

 This tube is 8g inches long, with a uniform diameter of 1 inch, the per- 

 foration, except at the flattened end, being of a diameter of three-fourths 

 of an inch. This tube unfortunately has been broken, the flattened 

 mouthpiece of which at its widest i)art measures 2^ inches across, has a 

 thickness of scarcely one-fourth of an inch; through this a perforation 

 about three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter has been drilled into the 

 larger part of the tube. The walls are about one-eighth of an inch 

 thick, the opening having been drilled by means of a hollow metal drill 

 1)0 int. 



This tube is similar to one figured by Squier and Davis from the 

 neighborhood of Chillicothe, Ohio, whi(;h they considered superior to 

 anything of which the present Indian was capable.' 



There is one of these tubes made of pottery in the Museum of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, 4^ inches long, found in Portage County, 

 Ohio. 



'Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, p. 225, Smithsouiau Contributions 

 to Knowledge, I. 



