AMERICAN ABORIGINAL PIPES AND SMOKING CUSTOMS. (>03 



can learn, did the I'einvians or other Soiitli Amerieans ever use tlie 

 l^ipe i)rior to the coming of the Europeans. 



Squier and Davis illustrate, however, a pipe apparently of the char- 

 acter of that illustrated by Do Bry, which was found in a mound in 

 Soutli Carolina.' 



A somewhat similar specimen is figured by Thruston as coming from 

 the stone craves of Tennessee.- 



Fig.206. 



CHEROKEE TYPE OF SAWED STONE PIPE. 



Howard County, Missouri. 



C;it. Xo. 69030, U.S.N.M. Collected by C. T. Turner. 



SOUTHERN TYPES. 



These pipes, however, differ greatly from those found by Mr. Clarence 

 B. IMoore in his extensive and very careful explorations made in Florida, 

 in its mounds, which were commoid}' of the tyi)e having large bowls 

 and stems, such as have been herein referred to. One of these, found 

 in Grant mound, had a small ornament of sheet copper fastened by an 

 encircling cord beneath the margin of the bowl facing the smoker which 

 crumbled into dustui)on exposure to the air,^ and it is believed that the 

 true Florida pipe will be found to 

 belong to the large bowl and stem 

 type, of which Mr. Moore luis found 

 a number, both of stone and of 

 earthenware. In the Steiner collec- 

 tion, in the U. S. National Museum, 

 there is an interesting pipe of stone 

 from the Etowah mound in Bartow 

 County, Georgia, the stem of which 

 is broken off and upon which there 

 is carved a grotesque figure facing 

 the bowl, of which it is difficult to say whether the workman designing 

 it intended it to represent a man or a monkey. 



Prof. Cyrus Thomas illustrates a pipe from Hollywood mound, in 

 Eichmond County, Georgia, representing, he claims, the head of an 

 owl, though he found in the same mound, <> feet below the surface, a 

 fragment of blue porcelain, upon the surface of which there is the well- 

 recognized head of a milch cow.^ 



This pipe, however, has the band upon it so commonly noticed 

 among the pipes of iSTorth Carolina and Georgia. One of the most 

 remarkable pipes which has come under the writer's notice is that 

 referred to in a private letter of Col. Bennett IT. Young, of Louisville, 

 Kentucky, the stem of which was covered with mica. "Very thin 

 flakes were used in this ancient electroplating and by some kind of 

 glue known to these people, the mica being rolled around the stem of 

 the pipe and put on very artistically and in such manner that the chem- 



' Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, p. 195, fig. 80. 



-Antiquities of Tennessee, p. 180, fig. 78, Ciucinnati, 1890. 



^Certain River Mounds of Duval County, Florida, p. .36, fig. 28. 



* Twelfth Annual Report of the bureau of American Ethnology, p. 320, fig. 205. 



