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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897 



Through the top of this base or keel there is drilled a stem hole one-half 

 its length until it intersects at right angles the base of the bowl. The 

 tops of these terraced bases are seldom more than half an inch wide, 

 though from front to back tliey are often 3 inches or more long, and 

 from top to bottom tliey are as deep as long. The sides of the bases are 

 parallel to each other, and are in two or three terraces, decreasing often 

 until the lower part of the base is scarcelj^ more than one-eighth of an 

 inch thick. Through this base there are almost invari- 

 ably one or more perforations. 



That the northern tribes have long been familiar 

 with carving must be admitted, for Lescarbot says of 

 the Micmacs ' they "have the industry both of paint- 

 ing and carving, and do make pictures of birds, beasts, 

 and of men, as well in stone as iu wood, as prettily as 

 is done by good workmen in these parts; and notwith- 

 standing they serve not themselves with them in adora- 

 tion, but only to please the sight, they use some private 

 tools, as in making tobacco pipes." ^ 



Prof. Daniel Wilson refers to Pabamesad, or the 



Flier, still living on the Great Manitoulin Island, 



generally known as Pwahguueka, the pipe maker, 



literally, "he makes pipes." "His saw, with which 



the stone is first roughly blocked out, is made of a bit 



of hoop iron, and his other tools are correspondingly 



rude; nevertheless the work of Pabamesad shows 



him to be a master of his art." ^ 



Professor Wilson refers to the black pipestone of Lake Huron, the 



white pii)estone from St. Josephs Islaud, Lake Huron, and the red 



pipestone of Coteau des Prairies, all obtained from the different tribes 



using these stones. 



Gilpin says the Micmacs used "shallow stone pans with quills and 

 reeds stuck in them, but did not cultivate tobacco."^ 



The only shallow stone pan apparently answering such description 

 would be the disk or jew's-harp pipe usually found to the southward, 

 though examples have been encountered on the northern side of Lake 

 Huron. 



Fig. 102 is a finegrained, brown, argillaceous stone pipe, about 2 

 inches high, with a greatest diameter of three-fourths of an inch, from 

 ^Newark, Ohio, collected by Mr. W. Anderson. It is ground over its 

 whole surface; the bowl has an interior uniform diameter of five-eighths 



' Sonriquois, who were the Micmacs of New Brunswick, not of Nova Scotia, and. 

 Ainorichiquois, literally the people of small dogs, an Algonquin people of New 

 England south of the Aleuiaki. 



2 Relics of the Stone Age iu Nova Scotia, ([uotiug Lescarbot, Transactions of the 

 Nova Scotiau Institute of Natural Science, 1894 and 1895, IX, p. 57, note. 



•'Prehistoric Man, 1, p. 392, London, 1876. 



/* Tiausuctions ol the Nova Scotiau lustitute of Natural Science, III, p. 222, 



Fig. 102. 



MICMAC PIPE. 



Newark, Oliio. 



Cat. No. 17314, U.S.N. M. 

 Collected bv W. Anderson. 



