578 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 170. 



DODBLE-BOWLED CATLINITE PIPE. 

 C:illin. Smithsonian Report, 1885, Ft. 2, plate 114. 



not in ridicule, of travelers. With scarcely a single exception among the 

 Siouan pipes the bowl and stem are at right angles to each other. 



Fig. 175 is a red "pipe stone" 8 inches long and scarcely an inch in 

 width, the bowl being 5 inches high. It was purchased of a dealer at 

 Evanston, Illinois, by Mr. William Porter, and is probably of no consid- 

 erable age, and not so well polished as the preceding example, as it was 



finished probably by 

 means of ordiuaxy sand- 

 paper, a material which 

 the modern Sioux had 

 learned the use of. The 

 base of this pipe is flat, 

 the point or prow run- 

 ning out flat top and bot- 

 tom, while the sides are 

 convex beyond the base 

 of the bowl, stem and 

 bowl being cylindrical. The prolongation of the stem has been frac- 

 tured and subsequently repaired in a most ingenious manner with 

 sheet lead, to do which required a groove to be cut on each side of the 

 fracture encircling the stem. From these grooves others were cut along 

 the stem on both sides, into all of which lead was run or fitted and sub- 

 sequently hammered down, after the broken pieces had been joined. 

 Subsequently the lead was smoothed 

 off level with the surface of the pipe, 

 and the splice was complete. This re- 

 paired stem demonstrates that the mod- 

 ern Indian is not devoid of resources 

 of a mechanical nature. A similar piece 

 of work is illustrated by Mr. I. A. Lap- 

 ham, from Wisconsin, of a fine-grained 

 sandstone calumet on which plates of 

 lead had been employed in repairing a 

 fracture.' 



This pipe (fig. 176) is drawn after an 

 illustration of Catliu, and shows how 

 varied were these Siouan forms, while 

 invariably remaining true to type, not- 

 withstanding its double bowl rising 



from a single stem.^ A similar specimen is in the Douglass collection, 

 which was obtained in 1820 by Maj. D. B. Douglass, father of the present 

 owner^ in Minnesota, while accompanying Gen. Lewis Cass as astrono- 

 mer of the expedition sent to make treaties with the Indians, the double 

 bowl possibly being ancient. On'the stem of another pipe of catlinite in 



Fig. 177. 



siorx PIPE. 



Fort Buford, North Dakota. 



Cat. No. 8496, U.S.N. M. Collected liy James P. Kimball. 



' Autifpiitics of Wisconsin, p. 83, Smithsonian Contiibntions to Kuowlodge, No. 70. 

 ^Smithsoniiin Keport, 1885, Pt. 2, plate 114. 



