530 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 140. 



DOUBLE CONICAL PIPE. 



Ohio. 



After specimen in possession of Warren K, Moorehead, 



one larger than the other ; eyes are also incised. Across the front of 

 this stone are incised a nnmber of straight lines, one above the other, 

 the significance of which it is difficult to guess. Except as noted, the 

 stone presents only a water- washed appearance, saving that on the bot- 

 tom appears again the long, deeply worn groove made by sharpen- 

 ing tools, which is cut deep into the stone. This peculiarity in the 

 natural shape of the i)ebble aj^pears to have been suggestive to the 



Indian mind of tbe form of an animal, 

 which he has endeavored to perfect by 

 cutting a few lines across the stone. 

 A specimen of this tyi)e (fig. 140), 

 found by Mr. Warren K, Moorehead 

 in Ohio, though badly broken, shows 

 how the Indian has taken advantage 

 of the peculiar shape of a water- 

 washed pebble to make a pipe. The 

 material is a sandstone, which one 

 would suppose was poorly suited to 

 resist the heat generated in smoking 

 it. Yet here was a shape suggestive of animal form which would cause 

 a child or even a grown person to preserve it, which, with the slightest 

 addition, would give the most primitive representation of animal form 

 which we have met with. There are few archaeologists who have not at 

 some time been astonished to find water- washed pebbles or concretions 

 of unusual shapes on the sites of Indian villages which had evidently 

 been collected and preserved by the Indian because of their resem- 

 blance to some creature or ob 

 ject. All experience has a ten- 

 dency to impress the archcTolo- 

 gist with the fact that man in a 

 savage state had quite a lively 

 appreciation of grace of out- 

 line in stones or shells, as well 

 as that he would be impressed 

 with brilliance of color,whether 

 it were in the plumage of birds, 

 the tint of shells, or the bril- 

 liance of foliage. 



An unattractive and unorna- 

 mental pipe of rectangular shape (fig. 141), collected by Brig. Gen. 

 D. Swift, of the United States Army, from Louisiana, having the upper 

 part of its bowl broken, but with peculiarities entitling it to be classed 

 in this type, is of sandstone and has the groove for tool sharpening on 

 its base, in addition to the similarity in diameter of bowl and stem open- 

 ing. Upon one corner of the base there is a drill hole, which has been 

 begun and is an eighth of an inch wide with a depth of about three- 



Fig. 141. 



DOUBLE CONICAL PIPE. 



Louisiana. 



. 8641, U.S.N.M. Collected by T>. Swift. 



