61G 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. '2-17. 



SOUTHERN MOUND PIPE. 



Etowah Mound, Bartow County, 



(icOTgUl. 



Steini-r I'ollection. Depositccl 

 Museum. 



r. S. National 



A very similar pipe to this one made of light clay lound in Goorj^ia 

 is ill the collection of the University of rennsylvania. 



All elaborate artistic pottery pipe belong! iig to the Steiner collection 

 is on deposit in the IT. S. National jMnseum. Fig. 231 from the Etowah 

 Mound in Bartow County, Georgia, is in quite a fragmentary condition, 



as both bowl and stem are badly broken, 

 yet sntlicient remains to leave no doubt of 

 its belonging to the type under discus- 

 sion. The bowl is formed at the neck of 

 a long-billed bird and is of the ordinary 

 Indian pot form, excepting the luolonga- 

 tion of the upper rim when it reenforces 

 the bird's beak; there are encircling the 

 bowl two rows of square pyramidal facets, 

 one above the other; the bird's eye is 

 neatly incised, the 

 curve of the head be- 

 ing distinct and the 

 opening of the beak 

 being represented by 

 a straight line cut into the pottery, the whole hav- 

 ing a pleasing individuality and representing an 

 originality contrasting strongly with ordinary In- 

 dian art, though somewhat similar to ])ipes found 

 in Cayuga County, New York. 



Another specimen from 

 the Etowah Mound in the 

 Steiner collection (tig. 

 232) shows a different 

 treatment of botli the bowl and the bird's 

 beak, the specimen being made of a light yel- 

 low pottery. The flaring sides of the rim of 

 the bowl, as well as the whole 

 form of the same, is strikingly 

 similar to the vessels held 

 clasped in the arms of human 

 figures, a pottery specimen of 

 which was found in this mound, 

 and another in Tennes.see. 

 The beak here is opened, in 

 which the bowl is modeled, 

 the eye being smaller, though incised in a similar manner to that of 

 the last figure; the band of the stem has more of a bead -like exterior 

 tlian with any of the other ])ipes of this type. 



A tyjiical ])i[)e of this kind made also of i)ottery from Loudon Comity, 

 Tennessee, collected by Mr. J. W. Emmert (fig. 233), shows the bird's 



I 



Fig. 228. 



SOUTHERN MOUND PlI'E. 



Bradley Con II tyiTeiiues-si-e. 



Cat. No. 116341, U.S.N.M. Col- 

 lected by J. P. Rogan. 



Fig. 220. 



SOUTHERN MOUNP PIPE. 



Loudon County, Teniie.s.see 



C.-it. No. C-fi'i, U.S.N.M. Collected bv .1. \V. 



