582 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 183. 

 SIOU.K CATLINITE PIPE. 



After George C.itlin. Siniths<mi.in Report, 18S5, Pt. 2, plate 34. 



through the keel, or the ornamentation may be of the character of fig. 

 182, which is a black chlorite, with an inlaying of lead in bands around 

 the upper part of tlie bowl, made by the Walipeton Sioux, Dakota, col- 

 lected by Lieut. D. B. Wilson, United States Army. There is a crude 



eftbrt at ornamentation 

 by means of a lead plate 

 inlaying of a figure ap- 

 parently intended to rep- 

 resent a horse. On the 

 stem base tbere is an in- 

 laid plate of lead of about 

 an inch in diameter let 

 into the stone, into which 

 in turn is inserted a red 

 stone cross, both polished 

 smoothly with the surrounding surface. This pipe was the property 

 of a medicine man of the Wahpeton Sioux, and retains all of the Siouan 

 characteristics, though it is evidently of recent origin. 



Fig. 183 is a typical Siouan catlinite pipe drawn after Catlin's illus- 

 trations. It is to be doubted, however, whether the animal standing 

 on the stem is intended to represent a pig or a 

 bear. From our acquaintance with totemic cus- 

 toms, however, it may be suspected that the bear 

 was intended. This pipe was the property of a 

 Missouri chief, Haw-che-ke-sug-ga, and, if cor- 

 rectly drawn, is an unusual occurrence, for the 

 animal faces from the smoker, a posture rarely 

 allowed in Sioux pipe figures, and as the animal 

 facing from the smoker is unique, it may be ques- 

 tioned whether Oatlin may not have reversed the 

 animal without due consideration. 



Prof. Gr. H. Perkins refers to a red pipe-stone 

 specimen presenting some peculiarities from tlie 

 Charaplain Valley, near Burlington, Vermont, 

 which was plowed up on the surface. The bottom 

 is furnished with a regular keel and ornamented 

 with a number of holes made from side to side.' 

 The keel-like ornamentation appears to be in 

 some way derived from that so commonly found 

 on the bases of Micmac pipes. 



A similar keel has been noted on a metal tomahawk pipe found as 



far south and east as Chester County, in Pennsylvania, which was 



made from (xerman silver, evidently copied from Siouan characteristics. 



A Catlinite pipe, 6^ inches long, from Sioux, Dakota, collected by 



Fig. 184. 

 SIOUX PIPE. 



Sioux, Dakota. 



Cat. No. 43278, U.S.N. M. 

 Collected liy James E. Sel>ring. 



'The Cahiinot in the Champlain Valley, Popular Science Monthly, December, 1893, 

 p. 344, fig. 10. 



