520 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 132. 

 MOUND RACCOON PIPE. 



Naples, Illinois. 



Cast, C.it. No. llfilll, U.S.N. M. C<illecti;il by .1. G. He 



Two other pipes were also found by Stinier and Davis representing 



human heads. Whether the (iowl-like appearance of this head is 



intended to represent some head covering or the liair is ditidcult to 



determine. 



The Indian is not usually represented with head covering, though 



subsequent to the arrival of 

 the whites they did at times 

 wear caps purchased from 

 the Europeans, especially 

 those Indians who came in 

 contact with the French. 



Thomas Campanins Holm, 

 referring to experiences in 

 Kew Sweden about IG-to, says : 

 "While my father and grand- 

 father lived among them some 

 Swedish Avomen had under- 

 taken to make some small 

 caps out of all kinds of old clothes, at the top of Avhich they tixed a tas- 

 sel of various colors, which they made of different colored rags, which 

 they unraveled and mixed together. Those caps pleased the Indians 

 extremely and they gave good prices for them in tlieir money." ' 



Mr. J. G. Henderson has also figured a pipe from a mound near 

 Naples, Illinois (fig. 132), which he believes represents a raccoon, tlie 

 fore and hind legs of which are well carved. The nose is quite sharp, 

 the tail lies flat and straight out along the 

 base, the eyes are close together, and the 

 beast appears to resemble in the cast a 

 mouse quite as much as it does a raccoon, 

 the ])Osition being more typical of tliat 

 usually assumed by the mouse than it is of 

 that of the raccoon, though it may be that 

 Mr. rienderson is correct, for he says that 

 in the original every feature of the animal 

 is perfect, including the bars on the tail and 

 face.- There is little doubt that animals 

 and birds represented on these pipes are 

 often impossible of identification. This 

 pipe is said to be i)o]ished as smooth as 

 glass and to be made of a very hard stone. 



There are many other animal forms which have been found in these 

 mound types, including the beaver, bear, panther, and lizard. Others, 

 however, it can not be denied, are most difficult to determine. In one 



rig. 133. 

 MOUND PIPE. 



Mound City, Ohio. 



Cist, Cat. No. 7218, U.S.N.M. Collwte.i l.y .Sijiiii 

 .Hnil Davis. 



'A short Descriptioii of tbe rrovince of New Sweden, now callod by the English, 

 Pennsylvania in Aiiieiica, jt. 1I51, Philadelphia, 1834. 

 '^Smithsonian Report, 1882, j). G89. 



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