AMERICAN ABORIGINAL PIPES AND SMOKING CUSTOMS. 475 



Fig. 100. 



RECTANGULAR PIPE. 



Bradford County, Pennsylvania. 



Cat. No. SSH51, U.S.N.M. Collected by O. H. P. Kinney an,! J. R. Wigftii 



have come under observation are made from a dark green steatite or 

 chlorite, a stone quite common alonj;' the Athmtic coast north of the 

 Chesapeake. These pipes have bowls and stems at right angles to 

 each other, and have invariably a beast or bird the head of which pro- 

 jects above the bowl on the side away from but facing the smoker. 

 Gen. A. L. Pridemore has a specimen found in Lee County, Virginia. 

 Quite a large pipe in an unfinished conditiou is from Bradford County, 

 Pennsylvania, col- 

 lected by Messrs. (). 

 H. P. Kinney and J. 

 B. Wiggins. It ap- 

 pears to have been 

 sawed out with metal 

 tools. It is 10 inches 

 long, 4i inches high, 

 with a diameter of 

 bowl of 1^ inches. 

 As seen in fig. 100, 

 it is completely 

 blocked out and is in 

 a condition to indi- 

 cate that it was in- 

 tended to be completed, representing some creature grasping the bowl 

 with all four legs, the head projecting li inches above the adjacent rim 

 of the bowl. On the sides depressions have been gouged out with a tool 

 with a round back, single strokes measuring over 1 inch in length, the 

 smoothness of which indicates that it was a metal gouge. The bowl 

 and stem holes, bored by means of metal drill points, are respectively 



five-eighths and 

 five- sixteenths of 

 an inch in diame- 

 ter. The stem is 

 broken at a depth 

 of 1^ inches where 

 the drill has en- 

 countered a llaAV, 

 which accounts for 

 its having been 

 cast aside. We see 

 here much of the 

 process of manu- 

 facture of the elaborate stone pipe, the specimen first being rudely out- 

 lined; next the bowl and stem were bored, then the elaboration of carv- 

 ing was completed, leaving the polishing to the last. 



In fig. 101, found in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, by Dr. T. H. 

 Bean, like fig. 100, is a jnpe of steatite 8i inches long and 3 inches 



Fig. 101. 

 RECTANGULAR PIPE. 



Lancaster County, Pennsj'lvania. 



C.ll. No. 27037, U.S.N.M. Collected by T. H. Be; 



