502 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Tlie feathers of the bird are rudely indicated, and around the neck 

 there is a neckhice of beads carved into the stone. Mr. Boyle refers 

 the writer to another pipe of this type in form of a dog or monkey, 

 which was found in Ontario, having a hole for the string bored through 

 the base of the figure. A pipe of similar type in possession of Rev. 

 W. M. Beauchamp, from Oneida lliver, New York, represents a bird 

 with topknot or comb, the wings being indicated by incised lines, the 

 material of the pipe being black slate. A specimen in the collection 

 of Mr. O. M. IJigelow, made also of slate, has what appears to be 

 wings cut in regular conventional lines, though the 

 head may as well be called a turtle as a bird. The 

 feet of the last two pipes referred to are bored from 

 side to side; upon the first there is on the back of the 

 neck a heart-shaped ornament. Still another of these 

 bird pipes from Onondaga County, New York, has 

 upon its sides the ellipsoidal depressions so often 

 noticed in Iroquoian pottery and stone pipes. Mr. 

 Beauchamp suggests that these pipes were made with 

 metallic tools. There is also in the U. S. National 

 Museum collection (Cat. No. 32342) a cast of a most 

 curious pipe of this type, the original of which is said 

 to be of magnesian limestone, in shape of a dog, and is 

 from New York, though the figure is so carved that it 

 is possible the intention was to represent the skeleton 

 of some animal. A beautifully executed pipe of this 

 character, having all the characteristics of the north- 

 ern specimens, made from a light brown, highly-pol- 

 ished stone, and upon which the wing and tail feathers 

 are conventionally represented, is in the collection of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, and is said to be from the coast of 

 Florida, which is, however, so far from the known locality where these 

 pipes are usually found as to suggest its having been lost by some white 

 person who had obtained it in the north. 



Yet another pipe, apparently of this type, was found at North Carver, 

 Plymouth County, Massachusetts, and is illustrated by l)r. Charles C. 

 Abbott.' 



This i)ipe has been attributed to tlie people of the Pacific coast, and 

 is sui)posed to have been brought across the continent. Its character 

 istics and style of workmanship are strikingly like those of certain of 

 the Pacific coast tribes, though if the specimen be compared with 

 others of the type, there is scarcely room to (piestion its eastern 

 northern origin. 



Mr. David Boyle illustratses a slate specimen from Victoria County, 

 Ontario, with a well-carved beak and mouth; though by far the most 

 curious pipes of this type are two illustrated by Mr. Boyle, from Victo- 



STOflE BIRD PIPE. 



Alleglieuy County, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Cat. No. l.i():;i, U.S.N. M. 

 Collected by P. Painter. 



' Primitive Industry, p. 324, IJg. 318, Salem, 1881. 



