606 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 210. 



WOOD AND LEAD PIPE. 



Ehodo Island. 



Cat. No. IO0«n, U.S.N. M. Collet-le.l I 

 George Gibbs. 



lodges,''' tlie reference to Jasper being' used for pipe making is i)robably 

 erroneous. The stone referred to Avas more likely a serpentine. The 

 ditJiculty of boring jasper would be very great without corundum or 

 sand of simihir hardness, and when drilled its hardness would probably 

 cause it to break from heating, on being smoked. In the several 

 thousand pipes in the U. S. National Museum 

 collections the writer does not recall having en- 

 countered a single one of jasper, nor does he 

 recall such a one being elsewhere described. 



This pipe of wood from Rhode Island (tig. 

 210), collected by Mr. George Gibbs, is artisti- 

 cally finished, being artistically carved in the 

 round with more than ordinary skill. It is 3 

 inches long, 4 inches high, with a width of If 

 inches. To jirevent the bowl, which appears to 

 be made of laurel or briar root, from burning- 

 out, it has been lined with lead, which has 

 been built up to prevent the bowl from burning 

 through. This lead has been subsequently 

 rubbed down so as to make a uniform surface. 

 The figure is nude, represented as though sitting with one leg on 

 each side of the stem, the elbows on the knees, and the head resting 

 in the hands, as though the individual were in a brown study. While 

 anatomically this figure may be open to criticism, the pose is decidedly 

 graceful and the manipulation or tool work far from that of a novice. 



Mr, David Boyle has figured two 

 most interesting stone pipes found 

 in Ontario, which are nearly 5 and 

 3 inches long, respectively, one 

 made of a limestone and the other 

 of a soapstone, the one from On- 

 tario Count}" and the other from 

 Durham County, each of Avhich is 

 made in the shape of a turtle, exe- 

 cuted with skill to the minutest 

 detail of carving.^ 



Mr. Andrew E. Douglass has in 

 his collection (fig. 211) a most inter- 

 esting and highly ornate portrait 



pipe, which is said to have been found deep in a mine in San Salvador, 

 Central America, which is of the most unique character in the writer's 

 experience, it being made from a dark-blue or gray slate, similar to that 

 worked on Queen Charlottes Island, in the Pacific. There are upon the 



Fig. 211. 



PORTRAIT PIPE. 



San Salvador, Central Ami rica. 



After phiitograph of Andrew E. Duii-lass. 



' Prehistoric Man, I, p. 391, Loudon, 1876. 

 2 Appcnflix to the Annual Report of the Miuistc 

 pp. 52, 53. 



of EdiRation of Ontario, 1896-97, 



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