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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



buruiiig-, as tliongh intended to bold artificial pupils of some different 

 material — a not unknown art in American pipes, especially tbose of the 

 curved base mound type. Tbe moutb is sawed into tbe pottery, and not 

 modeled in its ])lastic condition, as are tlie otber features. This type 

 bas also been found in Cayuga and Mnnroe counties, New York. 



A well-burned pottery pipe of Iroquoian type (fig. 119) from Water- 

 town, Kew York, collected by Col. E. Jewett, shows a rude character 

 of unusual ornamentation, not only in its scalloped bowl, but in the 

 enlarged part of tbe same, decorated by lines cut into tbe pottery, 

 thougb type cbaracteristics are preserved. Pipes of this character are 

 f(mnd in a variety of forms, having at times molded on the bowl or 

 around it, or on top of it, the ligures of men or animals, including both 

 the grave and grotescjue, yet often they are executi d witb a degree of 



skill more nearly akin to tbe 

 higher European art than to 

 tbat of savages, who, unless 

 they did so in their pipes, 

 do not appear to have pro- 

 duced a single figure carved 

 in the round, except of the 

 rudest character. 



Pipes of this type, having 

 square tops to the bowls, be- 

 long to the Hurons, accord- 

 ing to Mr. David Boyle, 

 of Toronto, one of which, 

 from Fox River of the Illi- 

 nois, found in a mound in 

 Wisconsin, is figured by him. These, Lapham says, were so small as 

 to suggest that they were articles of fancy rather than of use.' 



One of these square-topped pipes showing Iroquoian ornamentation 

 was shown to Mr. H. R. Schoolcraft by a chief of Riviere An Sable, at 

 Thunder Bay, INIichigau, on tlie mainland, as an antique pipe, which 

 the chief averred was smoked by his ancestors.'-' Dawson illustrates 

 a similar specimen from Montreal. 



School ciaft is i)robably right in his assertion that though they were 

 attributed to the skill of the American Indians they were not in any 

 instance due to these tribes, but were made for the Indian trade.^ 



This v/ill probably apply with equal force to all these hard-burned 

 clay pipes of Iroquoian type having upon them such varied ornamen- 

 tation as the representations of men, birds, and animals. 



Fig. 120 is a fragment of a small pipe of pottery, from Honeoye 



II. A. Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin, p. 82, Smithsonian Contributions to 

 Knowledge, VII. 



2 North American Indian Tribes, Ft. 1, p. 75, i)hite viii, lig. 1. 

 «Idcui, I't. 4, p. 140. 



Fij;. 119. 



IROQUOIS POTTERY PIPE. 



Watertown, New York. 



Cat. No. 6187, U.S.N. M. Collected by E. Jewett. 



