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REPORT OF NATIONAL MU8EUM, 1897. 



Fig. 55. 

 ANIMAL HEAD PIPE. 



Lancaster County, Pennsyl- 

 \auia. 



Cat. No. 27038, U.S.N. M. Collected 

 by T. H. Bean. 



It may be said with some degree of certaiuty that fig. 55 represents 

 a dog, wolf, or fox. The ears of the animal are carved in relief and 

 the lines rejiresenting the month are incised. This pipe is made of 

 a steel-gray serpentine, collected by Dr. T. H. Bean from Lancaster 

 County, Pennsylvania. The lines of ornamen- 

 tation on this pipe are of the most primitive 

 character and strictly in accordance with sav- 

 age conventionalism, crossing each other in a 

 manner common in Indian etchings, whereas 

 the shape of the pipe itself is not without merit, 

 being graceful and sufficiently accurate to give 

 a fair idea of the animal intended. 



There is a cut under the neck of the creature 

 which looks as though it were made with a 

 metal blade, though it appears much more 

 fresh than the rest of the work. There is 

 uo other work upon this i^ipe which may not 

 have been done with the most primitive imple 

 ments. 



A difficulty constantly confronting archfeol- 

 ogists is that discoverers of aboriginal speci- 

 mens frequently scrape incisions with metal tools, making it extremely 

 difficult to distinguish between old lines and new. 



This pipe has the bowl and stem hole of like size, each being approx- 

 imately three-fourths of an inch in diameter at the surface, and there- 

 fore resembles the cavities in the biconical r>ipes, 

 though the latter are seldom, if ever, so small. 



Fig. 50, from Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, collected 

 by Mr. C. T. Wiltheiss, is a curious pipe made of a 

 light gray sandstone, in imitation of the head of 

 some animal, thongh in this case, as in many others, 

 it would be difficult to identify it. The mouth, ears, 

 eyes, and nostrils are each distinctly shown, though 

 the tool marks with which the work was done have 

 been obliterated. In the collection of the University 

 of Pennsylvania Museum there is the head of an 

 animal, carved from a gray sandstone found in West 

 Virginia, not dissimilar to the head here figured, the 

 mouth of which is partly open, showing the tongue. 

 Fig. 57 is a cast of a curious banded-slate bowl 

 pipe from West Virginia, collected by Mr. B. H. 

 Harrison. Upon the surface facing away from the 

 smoker there is a rudely executed human face. The mouth is an 

 incised straight line, as is the lower end of the nose, the eyes being 

 indicated by slight depressions, evidently made with the point of a 

 drill. Upon the cheeks of this face are a number of irregular figures 



Fig. 56. 



ANIMAL HEAD PIPE. 



Piqua, Miami Coiiuty, 

 Ohio. 



Cat. No. i)9187, U.S.N.M. 

 Collected by C. T. "Wiltheiss. 



