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Kaffir pipe, and a native smoking it to produce stupefaction, as many 

 American tribes have done, and yet do. "He, the Kaffir, first pours 

 a little water on the ground and makes a sort of mud pie; he then 

 takes a limber twig and bends it into the shape of the bow; this he 

 buries in the mud in such a way that both ends ])rotrude a little at the 

 surface. He then waits a little for the mud to harden. When he con- 

 siders the pie is done to a turn, he pulls out the twig, which of course 

 leaves a curved hole through the clay. At one end he scoops out a 

 sort of bowl, in which he places his tobacco; at the other end he 

 fashions a little mound to serve as a mouthpiece. He drops a live coal 

 on the tobacco in the bowl, lies flat on the ground, applies his thick 

 lips to the orifice and sucks away. He mixes with it a liberal quantity 

 of dagha, a kind of hemp with intoxicating qualities, similar to those 

 of hasheesh. By the time the pipe is finished the smoker falls over in 

 a fit." 



The Igorottes, or mountaineers of Formosa, who are head hunters, 

 have a curious custom relating to the pipe. They watch the coast 

 dwellers coming in search of wood, who are attacked and decapitated ; 

 when heads to a certain number have been taken by one of them, "he 

 obtains by way of honor the right to sell pipes," ' which are little bits 

 of wood representing human heads. 



HEAVY ANIMAL AND BIRD PIPES. 



We have in fig. 65 a type specimen of the heaviest of any of the 

 American Indian pipes with which the writer is acquainted, and in 

 fact the only one so far discovered which would fully serve, from its 



size and weight, to 

 "brain a man or a 

 horse," and which was 

 "three-quarters of a 

 yard long." The one 

 here illustrated is 

 from Blount County, 

 Tennessee, collected 

 by Br. Blankinship. 

 The bird represented 

 may be either owl or 

 parrot, probably the 

 former, and differs 

 from pipes of this 

 type in having the stem hole in the breast of the bird. It is a light 

 bottle-green chlorite, 10 inches long, 4A inches high, with a width of 2^ 

 inches. The opening of the bowl is about 1^ inches in diameter, that 

 of the stem being about three-fourths of an inch. The surface of this 

 pipe is smoothly worked down except on the back, where the wings are 



Fig. 65. 



STO^SE BIRD PIPE. 



Blount County, Tenne.ssee. 



Cat. No. 23300, U.S.N. M. Collected by J. .M. lilnnkinsliip. 



Littell's Liviug Age, October 19, 1895, quoting La Jnurual des Voyages. 



