AMERICAN ABORIGINAL PIPES AND SMOKING CI'STOMS. 017 



bealc holding a plain bowl of the Indian form, the eye being repre- 

 sented by a rounded de])ression cut into the earthenware on either side 

 of the head. Were it not for the other specimens figured, one might 

 claim that the bird was not distinguishable as a definite ornamenta- 

 tion. A noticeable dei)arture from the beak characteristics of this 



Fi<;. 230. 



sorTnp:RN jiound pipe. 



Etowab Mound, Bartow County, Georgia. 



St«mer collection. Deposited in U. S. National Museum. 



Fig. 231. 



SOUTHERN MOl'ND PIPE. 



Etowah Monnd, Bartow County, Georgia. 



Steiner collection. Deposited in U. S. National Museum 



type appears in an oblong depression at the base of the bowl under its 

 stem where the pottery is cut out one-half the thickness of the same, 

 and would be inexplicable were it not for a specimen from Camden 

 County, Georgia. The only other treatment of the figures of clay pipes 

 in any way approaching or resembling tliese birds with distended jaws, 

 or with the closed beak, is in the pij)e from Cayuga County, Xew A'ork, 



Fig. 232. 



SOUTHERN MOUND PIPE. 



Etowah Mound, Bartow County, Georgia. 



St4fiiier collection. Deposited in U.S. N.itional Museum. 



Fig. 233. 



SOUTHERN MOUND PIPE. 



Loudon County, Tenne.s.scc. 



Cat. No. CS2i>, U.S.N.M. Collected by J. W. Emmert. 



of the Iroquoian type, where tlie bird's beak extends far above the rim 

 of the bowl, the bowl itself apparently being the pouch of the bird. 

 While the treatment of the northern and the southern pipes is so dis- 

 similar, there appears to the writer to be sufficient analogy to attribute 

 a like artistic development to the i)ersons making the one and the other. 



