610 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fiji. 214. 



ATLANTIC COAST PIPE. 



Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina. 



Cil. No. 8'.>.s:i9, U.S.N.M. Collected by John P. Rogan. 



smoked witli ;i stem of ditterent material, tlie stem oi)enin^- decreasing 

 from the orifice, as is noted in the tubuhir pipes from California, which 

 had short bird-bone stems held in with asphaltum. Were these i)ipes 

 smoked without other stems it is probable there would be indications 



of the wear of the teeth, as is at 

 times noticed in the old English 

 pipes, the stems of which are often 

 worn through by the smoker's 

 teeth, though Indian pipes seklom 

 show such wear. This form is 

 said by Dr. Abbott to be also 

 found in New Jersey.^ 



A pipe of pottery from Fort 

 Defiance, the Lenoir burial place, 

 North Carolina, collected by Mr. J. P. Rogan (fig. 215), has no tempering 

 material mixed with the clay from which it is made, a very noticeable 

 occurrence in this type of pipes, and it is a matter deserving of partic- 

 ular attention to see if other objects 

 were made of such earthenware. 

 The bowl of this pipe, which flares 

 out more than any of the preceding 

 specimens, has walls at least one- 

 fourth of an inch thick. This pipe 

 is quite rude in its finish, the marks 

 of the tools with which it was made 

 being still jierfectly distinct, the 

 specimen being in outline not dis- 

 tantly related either to the tubular pipe or to the pipes used by the 

 English in trade. 



Fig. 216, of steatite, was found in a mound in Caldwell County, North 

 Carolina, and was collected by Mr. J. P. Rogan. Its color is a light pink, 



the specimen being smoothed 

 over its whole surface. The stone 

 of which this pipe is made is ex- 

 tremely soft, and had it been held 

 between the teeth of the smoker 

 it is scarcely possible that there 

 would not be marks on its stem, 

 which, however, is perfectly 

 smooth. The characteristics of 

 this specimen are similar to those 

 of pottery pipes, even in the thinness of the walls of both bowl and 

 stem, which are scarcely if at all in excess of a sixteenth of an inch 

 thick. 

 A soft gray steatite pipe (fig. 217) from a mound in Monroe County, 



Fig. 215. 

 ATLANTIC COAST PIPE. 



Caldwell County, North Carolina. 



Cat. No. S3U43, U.S.NM. Collected by J. V. Rogan. 



ATLANTIC COAST PIPE. 



Caldwell County, North Carolina. 



Cat. No. 8:i02',», U.S.N.M. Collected by J. P. Rogan. 



1 C. C. Abbott, Stoue Age in New Jersey, p. 342, Smithsonian Report, 1875. 



