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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



into the material, a straight incised line answering for tlie month. Up 

 and down the bowl are a nnmber of equidistant parallel lines intended 

 for ornament, though the work appears to be done with stone tools. 

 Though the size of the stem in proportion to that of the bowl decreases 

 in this class, the biconical features are largely retained. Schoolcraft 

 figures an "idol pipe" similar to those here shown from near Browns- 

 ville, on the Ohio River. 



Fig. 165, while rude in execution, exhibits similar artistic ability to 

 that evidenced in the two preceding pipes. It is made of pottery and 

 represents a person clasping a bowl somewhat in the manner repre- 

 sented in the other figures, though leaving no doubt that each repre- 

 sents contemporaneous art. This pii^e 

 is from the Etowah Mound, in Bartow 

 County, Georgia, collected by Dr. Roland 

 Steiner, and has unfortunately had the 

 head broken from the body. Here in the 

 inclosure also appear to have been found 

 objects of European manufacture. The 

 clay of which this pipe is made does not 

 appear to contain tempering material, 

 and another noticeable feature and devia- 

 tion from the type is the decreased size 

 of the stem and its similarity to certain 

 other pipes found in this mound which 

 the writer will show to be probably quite 

 modern and similar in charactejistics to i)ipes found in the Hollywood 

 Mound, Richmond County, Georgia, where also objects of European 

 origin were discovered. ' 



A similar pipe is evidently referred to in the description of one found 

 in the stone graves of Tennessee, from which Professor Putnam says 

 "only eight pijies had been found in the opening of several thousand 

 graves, among which was a clay pipe with an ornamented bowl, two 

 others were of pottery, and all the rest of stone; one of the latter elab- 

 orately carved, representing a man holding a cooking pot, which formed 

 the bowl of the pipe."^ 



GREAT PIPES. 



Fig. 166 is the cast of a pipe said to be from Kentucky, collected by 

 Mr. H. A. Ward, and appears to be an unfinished " great pipe" of the 

 Indians, which had been hammered into shape but never finished. It 

 is 10 inches long, 8i inches wide, and 6 inches high, representing a bird 

 with extended wings, as though in the act of flying. A striking pecul- 

 iarity of this pipe is that the depression in the breast is the only evi- 

 dence in the cast of a stem hole, and is unfinished. If this be the case 

 in the original, it is the only specimen of this type of pipe where the 



' Gyrus Thomas, Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 323, plate. 

 ^Peabody Museum Report, III, p. 165. 



Fiii. 165. 



IDOL PIPE. 



Etowah Mound, Georgia. 



U. S. National Museum. Steiner collection. 



