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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



have been placed were it not that the size of the stem opening and of 

 the opening of the bowl were so typical of these heav^' pipes. Another 

 hand, hohling some object, is in the Sterner collection, from the Etowah 

 mound, Georgia. Tliruston in his Antiquities of Tennessee represents 

 a pipe of this general type, the figure being a bird with outstretched 

 wings,' and another in which the bird is on its back, the bowl protrud- 

 ing from its breast.'^ One specimen represents the human foot and a 

 part of the leg, the bowl coming out on the shin bone near the instep.^ 

 In this specimen the toes are well carved. 



The occurrence of the hand, arm, foot, and leg in pipes of this type 

 would suggest that they were exceptions to the general rule and have 

 no totemic significance. 



In many of its characteristics fig. 70 would appear to belong to this 

 type, yet in some respects there are features which Avould possibly 



entitle it to be classed ii» an 

 indeterminate group. This 

 pipe is from Chillicothe, 

 Ohio, collected by Dr. E. H. 

 Davis, and has the body and 

 wings of a bird, with the 

 head of a man facing to the 

 right of the smoker; and an 

 enlargement along the back 

 of the man's head and neck 

 is suggestive of the old- 

 fashioned cue of the whites. 

 The stem of the pipe enters 

 the bowl, intersecting it at 

 right angles, and is perforated through the wing instead of under the 

 tail, as is commonly the case. A clay pipe, representing a panther 

 facing to the right, is among the Iroquoian pipes and other specimens 

 of men and birds or beasts are from New York and Ontario, and a bird 

 on a mound pipe from Illinois faces also to the right. 



Old Chillicothe, on the Little Miami River in Ohio, is the place to 

 which Daniel Boone, in 1780, says he was carried a prisoner by the French 

 and Indians, by whom he was captured, though while a prisoner he 

 appears to have been treated with unusual consideration, the king of 

 the Sliawnees, lie says, having adopted him.^ 



Squier and Davis illustrate a pipe of this general character, though 

 of the tubular type, bowl and stem being in the same plane, upon which 

 a bird is carved with its back attached to the tube, found in a mound 

 on the Catawba River, Chester District, South Carolina, the specimen 



' Antiquities of Tennessee, p. 203, fig. 105. 

 2 Idem, p. 205, fig. 108. 

 3Ideni,p. 190, fig.87. 



••John Filson, Ilistoiie de Keutiicke, pp. 74, 79, Paris, 1785, translated from English 

 by John Parraud. 



Fif.. 70. 

 BIRD WITH HUMAN HEAD. 



Cbillicothe, Oliio. 



Cast, Cat. No. Till, U.S.N.M. CoUectfd liy E. H. Davis. 



