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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897 



Fig. 148. 



MODERN POTTERY MOUND PIPE. 



St. Jobuij Kiver, Florida. 



C.-it. No. 24S0, U.S.N. M. Collected by 

 G. S. Taylor. 



from a stone grave in southeastern Missouri, are in the museum of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, whicli also possesses a light clay pipe of 

 this type, upon the surface of which are a number of circular stamped 

 impressions in the clay. There is also in the same museum a partly 

 decorated pipe of this type from Kershaw, South Carolina, made of a 

 light yellow pottery, and yet another made of 

 steatite found on the site of an Indian town in 

 a grave 2 feet below the surface near Camden, 

 South Carolina, which has a double row of orna- 

 mental figures running around stem and bowl. 

 These last two pipes have been illustrated by 

 Schoolcraft. ^ 



A unique specimen of a pottery pipe (fig. 148) 

 is from St. Johns River, Florida, and was col- 

 lected by Col. C S. Taylor. It is only an inch 

 high, with a like length, and was found in a 

 mound, though there can be no doubt of its 

 modern origin, as it yet retains the mold mark 

 and stamp of a tobacco plant and the coat of 

 arms of the pipe makers' guild of London, though the type does not 

 appear to be that of any of the many early known ones turned out by 

 English pipe makers, being the only specimen which has come to the 

 writer's notice. 



In fig. 149 is again encountered the projection common in the territory 

 contiguous to the Sioux. It is a pottery 

 pipe, the clay from which it is made having 

 a mixture of shells. It is from Indian Bay, 

 Lonoke County, Arkansas. It is about 3 

 inches long and of like height, the band 

 around the bowl being decidedly ornamen- 

 tal. The size of bowl and stem retain 

 the characteristically large dimensions of 

 the biconical pipe cavities. There is in the 

 U. S. National Museum collection a light- 

 colored clay pipe of this type from Pecan 

 Point, Mississippi County, Arkansas, the 

 bowl of which has been badly broken, 

 though enough remains to show that a 

 snake was twined around it, the head being 

 yet intact. The stem of this pipe is ellip- 

 tical and the point less pronounced in front of the bowl than in any of 

 the pipes figured. 



While retaining bowl and stem characteristics, fig. 150 is a hard- 

 burned pottery specimen from Carroll County, Tennessee, collected by 

 Rev. E. H. Randall. It presents quite a peculiar feature in the band or 



Fig. 149. 



BICONICAL PIPE. 



Indian I5ay, Lonoke County, 



Arkansas. 



Cat. No. H8123, U.S.N. M. Collected by E. 

 Palmer. 



' North American Indian Tribes, Pt. 2, plate 43. 



