390 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 23. 



TUBE AND CUP SHAPED IMPLEMENT. 



Bartow County, Georgia. 



U.S.National Museum. Collected by Roland Stein. 



Fig. 23 belongs to another and distinct type of stone tubes and was 

 found in the Etowah Mound, Bartow County, Georgia, and is in the 

 Steiner collection now on deposit in the U. S. National Museum. This 

 object is as symmetrical in outline as it is perfect in finish; stem and 

 bowl, both outside and inside, are eiiually well and carefully ground; 

 the walls are. approximately, one-eighth of an inch in thickness through- 

 out. The specimen is 2^ inches long, the bowl being 1^ inches in outer 

 diameter and the stem live-eighths of an inch. It appears probable 



that we have here the form of the medi- 

 cine pipe referred to by so many of the 

 early writers, or is it but a freak of the na- 

 tive tobacco pipe? Coreal says they do 

 not resort to bleeding when they are sick, 

 as is done elsewhere, but call in their jaou- 

 ans, who are priests and doctors. These 

 suck that part of the body which is most 

 painful, at times with the mouth, also 

 with the chalumeau, after making a slight 

 incision near a vein.' 

 Coreal, relating his experiences between 1666 and 1697, is one of the 

 earliest writers who employed the word chalumeau, a reed, in referring 

 to the pipe. It is said to be a word of Norman origin and the one from 

 which "calumet" is derived. A similar specimen to that in the Steiner 

 collection is in the U. S. National Museum, and was found by Capt. C. E. 

 Bendire on the John Day River, California. 



Fig. 24 is a comparatively modern California pottery pipe 3^ inches 

 long, with a diameter of five-eighths of an inch at the mouth of the bowl. 

 Except that both bowl and stem are longer, there are retained in this 

 specimen all of the character- 

 istics of the Pueblo pipe of a 

 very primitive period, for 

 theTe can be little doubt that 

 the California j)ipe and that 

 of the Indians south of Cal- 

 ifornia are nearly related, the 

 former probably adoj)ting the 

 custom from their southern contemporaries, as the general distribution 

 appears to have gradually traveled northward. This pipe has elegance 

 of form, and the clay from which it is made is of very smooth texture, 

 the walls of the bowl not being more than one-sixteenth of an iiicb 

 thick. A Mojave pottery pipe of this character is in the Davenport 

 Academy. The writer is informed by Dr. Franz Boas that there is a 

 pipe of this type made of green serpentine in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York, obtained from the Fraser River Indians. 



Fig. 24. 



BED POTTERY TUBE AND BOWL PIPE. 



Colorado River. 



U. S. National Museum. Collected by Edward Palmer. 



'Voyages de Francois Coreal aux Indes Occidentales, Amsterdam, 1722, I, p. 39, 

 translated from Spanish. 



