AMERICAN ABORIGINAL PIPES AND SMOKING CUSTOMS. 611 



Imj;. -jit. 



at1.amic coast pipe. 



Moui'oe County, North Carolina. 



Cal. No. r.i664, U.S.N'.M. Collected by W. C. Ks 



North Carolina, collected by Prof. W. C. Kerr, of Raleigb. It is ({.^ incbes 

 long, worked out with unusual skill, there being embossed on the bowl 

 three circular decorations or eyes, the interiors of which are covered by 

 a network of straight lines crossing each other at different angles, a 

 fourth eye being in the form of a parallelogram with a number of cir- 

 cles, cue inside the other. Running uj) the bowl from the stem there 

 is a tongue shaped decoration wh'cli connects this specimen with pipes 

 of the other forms from 

 the same area. The 

 stem at its junctuie 

 with the bowl is not 

 more than tive-eighths 

 of an inch in diame- 

 ter, and is covered its 

 entire length with en- 

 circling lines about 

 half inch apart, be- 

 tween which are incised oruameutal lines running from one circling 

 line to the other in graceful manner. 



This type is at times found in the shell heaps of Maryland, made 

 from a bright red or jiink i)ottery of homogeneous texture, which 

 is ornamented in a somewhat similar manner, one of which, resem- 

 bling the trade pipe, was found on the surface in Wicomico County 

 and is now in the collection of the Maryland Academy of Sciences in 

 Baltimore. 



There is in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania a most 

 ornate bright red clay pipe having four groups of crossed lines in sepa- 

 rate panels; along the outside of each panel, running up and down the 

 bowl, are a series of dots, all of which at first glance would pass for 



imitations of the 

 cord marks so com- 

 monly seen on In- 

 dian ])ottGry. The 

 exact regularity of 

 these dots, two at 

 the side of each line 

 of the panel, cause 

 Mr. Stewart Culin 

 to suggest that these panels are intended to be employed after the man- 

 ner of the wampum belt, which api)ears to the writer to be possible. 



A dark red, almost purple, si>ecimen (fig. 218) of chlorite was found 

 in a mound in Caldwell County, North Carolina, collected by Mr. J. P. 

 Itogan. This delicately finished pipe is 11 inches long and from the 

 base of the stem to the top of the bowl is scarcely i^ inches in height, 

 with a diameter across the exterior of the bowl of 1| inches; the stem 

 is 9;^ inches and has a diameter at its juncture with the bowl very 



Fig. 218. 



ATLANTIC COAST PIPE. 



Caldwell Connty, North Carolina. 



C.lt. No. 82S35, U.S.N.M. Collected by J. P. Hog: 



