450 • REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Percy refers to an Indian pipe in 1G07, wbicli, lie says, "was artificially 

 made of earth, as ours are, but far bigger, witb the bowl fashioned 

 together with a piece of fine copper."' 



An offering of tobacco was made to the English in 1G07 at Dominico, 

 within 14 degrees of the line, north latitude.^ 



It is difficnlt to understand what was intended by the expression 

 " fashioned together with a piece of fine copi)er." Was it that the pipe 

 had a bowl lined with copper, as is not uncommon with pipes of wood 

 in the Northwest, or is the copper here referred to the tool with which 

 the pipe was made? 



An extremely interesting stone pipe is in the collection of the museum 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, which was found at Chelsea, Massa- 

 chusetts. About half an inch of the stone stem has been broken off. 

 The piece has been replaced and is firmly held in position by a thin 

 copper band about an inch wide, which is neatly fitted around the stem, 

 reaching above and below the fracture and holding it in place. 



Strachey refers to an offering of tobacco made to the expedition on 

 the coast of Maine by "sixteen savages in three canoes;"^ and an 

 offering of a similar character was made in 1608 to John Smith by the 

 Susquehannock Indians, at the head of Chesapeake Bay, of " bows and 

 arrows and tobacco pipes." One of these Indians, Smith says, had 

 " the head of a wolf hanging in a chain for a jewel, his tobacco pipe, 

 three-quarters of a yard long, prettily carved with a bird, a deare, or 

 some such devise at the great end, and sufficient to beat out one's 

 braiues, with bows, arrows, and clubs suitable to their greatness." '* 



Near the same lAsLce Smith encountered the Massowomekes, whose 

 " targets, baskets, swords, tobacco pipes, platters, bows and arrows 

 shewed they much excelled those of onr parts, and their dexterity in 

 their small boats, made of the barks of trees, sowed with bark and 

 well luted with gum, argueth that they are seated upon some great 

 water." '-' 



These Massowomekes, the writer is informed by Mr. James Mooney, 

 belonged to the Five Nations, people who commonly used birch bark, 

 and whom we know were at that period living within touch of the 

 French located on the St. Lawrence, or River of Canada, as it was then 

 called, and who received their articles of metal directly from the French. 

 Had the colonists followed the example of Smith and avoided the dis- 

 putes and disagreements with which they were constantly burdened, 

 they would have attained, as he has said, great happiness "had they 



» G. Percy, A Discourse of the Plantation of the Southern Colony of Virginia by the 

 English, Introduction, p. Ixiv, in Arber's edition of Smith's "Works. 



2 Idem, p. Ixiv. 



'William Strachey, Historie of Travaille into Virginia, p. 176 (Hakluyt Society). 



<Tlie Voyages and Discoveries of Capt. John Smith in Virginia, p. 350, in Arber's 

 edition of Smith's Works. 



Udem, p. 367. 



