544 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



witlistauding tbe fact of this pipe being influenced by modern art, 

 the work upon it is primitive in its character, though the lines have 

 been incised with sharp-edged tools. There is in the U. S. National 

 Museum collection another biconical pipe made of a soft yellow 

 sandstone in imitation of a bird sitting on a perch, which was found 

 in Maury County. Tennessee, the outlines of which are distinct 

 though the specimen itself is quite rude. Squier 

 and Davis also represent several pipes in 

 human form, the persons figured being in a 

 crouching i)osition, one other being that of an 

 animal showing its teeth in a formidable man- 

 ner.' Schoolcraft also figures a pipe of this 

 type.- 



A carefully ground though unfinished pipe 

 from a mound in Knox 

 County, Tennessee, collected 

 by Mr. Norman Spang (fig. 

 168), is made of brown stone, 

 its greatest length being 

 2^ inches. It was evidently 

 intended to be smoked by 

 inserting the stem in the 

 shouldered opening and hold- 

 ing the pipe by its elongated 

 base, as appears to have been 

 done with the disk pipes. 

 The stria' of the drill yet re- 

 main distinct both in bowl 

 %Lud stem opening. Both above and below the stem 

 extension from the bowl the tool marks are quite 

 distinct, the shoulders having been formed by a 

 sawing process. 



Fig. 109 is a graceful pipe of the preceding form 

 and is also a mound specimen from near Dubuque, 

 Iowa, collected by Mr. H. T. Woodman. It is made 

 of a banded green slate, the whole surface of which 

 has been ground with extreme care. The incision 

 on the side of the jDrolongatiou of the bowl has been 

 sawed in on each side and across the end as though intended to 

 represent the mouth of some animal. This belief is strengthened by 

 two depressions on the point, drilled with a rough pointed tool, proba- 

 bly a stone, or, if of metal, one which was quite dull, as evidenced 

 by the stria', these depressions ajiparently being intended to rej^re- 

 sent the nostrils. 



Pig. 168. 

 INDURATKD CLAY PIPE. 



Xnox County, Teunessee. 



Cat. No. 14636S, U.S.N.M. Collected by 

 Norman Spang. 



Fig. 169. 



BANDED GREEN SLATE 

 PIPE. 



Dubuque, Iowa. 



Cat. No. 426«, U.S.N.M. 

 Collected liv H. T. Woodman. 



' Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, figs. 75, 146, 148, 149. 



2 Henry R. Schoolcraft, ludian Tribes of North America, Pt. 1, plate 13, fig. 2. 



