AMERICAN ABORIGINAL PIPES AND SMOKING CUSTOMS. 597 



Fig. 195. 



WOLPI PUEBLO PIPE. 



"Wolpi Pueblo, Arizona. 



Cat. No. 128460, U.S.N.M. Collected by J.iii 



pueblo tubular pipes, which in its turn is less firm in texture than the 

 rectangular Mexican i)ipe with glazed surface, which the writer attrib- 

 utes to Spanish origin. 

 Fig. 190 is a hard- 

 burned and unglazed 

 thick bowl and thick- 

 stemmed pottery spec- 

 imen of dark brown 

 color from New Mex- 

 ico, collected by Maj. 

 J. VY. Powell. It is 2 

 inches long and l.j 

 inches wide. The pro- 

 jection is square, and 

 the stem hole is evi- 

 dently intended for a 



separate stem. The difference in position of these projections, with- 

 out other evidence, would be almost convincing that the form of this 

 pipe was in a transition stage. 



Fig. 197 represents a cast of a greenstone 

 pipe found near Santa Fe, New Mexico, col- 

 lected by Maj. W. S. Beebe. It is of unusual 

 size, being 12 inches long and 7.^ inches high, 

 having a bowl the greatest exterior diameter 

 of which is 2^ inches. This pipe is of typical 

 Mexican shape, and is finished with such ar- 

 tistic skill as to leave little doubt of its being 

 of ceremonial importance to the tribe possess- 

 ing it. The stem curves gracefully into the 

 bowl, the top of which is carved 

 in the form of an eagle or hawk 

 facing the smoker. Crawling 

 along the sides of the stem and 

 its base, reaching two-thirds of the way up the bowl, are 

 three rattlesnakes; the fourth snake reaches along the 

 upper part of the stem 

 nearly to the end, its 

 tail being on the bowl. 

 The rattles of the sn akes 

 are well defined. Above 

 each of the snakes, 

 crawling up the bowl, 

 are the figures of three 



separate human beings, as though each snake were crawling toward 

 a separate person. The original of this pipe, which appears to be 

 highly polished, in the writer's opinion is one of those presented to 



Fig. 196. 



MOKI PUEBLO PIPE. 



Moki Pueblo, New Mexico. 



Cat. No. i-iSiS, r.S.X.M. 

 Collected bv J. W. Powell. 



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Fig. 197. 

 GREEN STONE PIPE. 



Santa Fe, New Mexico. 



Cat. No. 9927S, U.S.N.M. Collected by W. S. Beebe. 



