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REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



the arrival of the Russians; that they received it from the Japanese 

 who came from the Kurilski Islands, and once to the mouth of the river 

 Kamtschatka, and that the name which the Kamtschadales give the 

 Japanese of Shisman comes from ' shish,' a needle. The Japanese cer- 

 tainly used to come and trade to the Kurilski Islands, for I found there 

 a Japanese saber, a Japanese waiter, and silver earrings, which could 

 be brought from no other place.''' 



The Tchuckchi pipe has apparently traveled across Bering Strait 

 quite recentl 3^, judging from the similarity in the pipes on the Asiatic 

 and American sides. The most natural supposition appears to the 

 writer to be that the Tchuckchi in their turn received the pipe from the 

 Japanese by way of the Kurile Islands, they possibly in turn receiving 

 it from the Chinese. 



MISCELLANEOUS PUEBLO PIPES. 



In the southwestern part of the United States are found a class of 

 pipes usually made of pottery, certain of which resemble the Siouau 

 pipe in a measure, though there is a distinctiveness about them enti- 

 tling them to be classed 

 by themselves. Those in 

 the collection of the U. S. 

 Xational Museum are all 

 made from a rude, hard 

 burned, and un glazed 

 black pottery. Some 

 have projections similar 

 to the Sioux pipe, the 

 I)row being approxi- 

 mately the same size as 

 the stem, as seen in fig. 

 194. This specimen, except that it is made of this hard pottery, is not 

 very unlike in outline from the Siouan pipes of the Ujjper Missouri 

 River drainage. The stem, however, of these southwestern pipes is 

 heavy and thick, as are the walls of the bowls, the stem opening being 

 formed by inserting a stem of grass through the plastic clay and burning 

 it out in firing the pipe. 



Fig. 195, from the Wolpi jjueblo in Arizona, collected by Col. James 

 Stevenson, is made of this typical hard unglazed i)ottery, similar to 

 specimens found at times among the Iroquois graves of Canada or the 

 United States, near Lakes Erie, Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River, 

 which have similar stem o])enings. The inverted terrace-like i)rojectiou 

 below the bowl indicates how varied it was, and that it was probably 

 intended to hold the pipe by when it was smoked. The outline of the 

 exterior of bowl and stem of this pipe may be duplicated in soapstone 

 in the Carolinas. The pottery from which these pipes are made, though 

 of recent manufacture, does not compare with that of the ancient 



Fig. 194. 



MODERN PUEBLO PIPE. 

 . 2296S, U.S.N. M. Collected by J. \V. Powell. 



' Tho History of Kamtschatka and the Kurilski Islands, p. 186. 



