61<S 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Fig. 234. 



SOUTHBRN MOUND PIPE. 



Camden County, Georgia. 



Cat. No. lOlKls, r.S.N.M. Collected bv G. R. Fh 



Fig. 234 represents a pipe from Camden County, (leorgia, collected 

 by Mr. G. E. Floyd. It belongs also to the type we have been dis- 

 cussing, though it presents an entirely new art concept. The specimen 

 is of pottery; the bowl with its tiaring rim is severe in its simiilicity, 

 the band on the stem remaining constant through most of the speci- 

 mens of the type, though even this rule 

 has its exceptions, and the bird's beak 

 has disappeared from the bowl, though 

 it reappears in the depression in the base 

 of the stem under the bowl, in which a 

 pottery ball yet remains adhering as 

 when first modeled, apparently establish- 

 ing quite an interesting conventional 

 treatment of the beak of a bird. There is 

 another specimen of this type from Har- 

 din's farm in Blount County, Tennessee, 

 slightly larger than the pipe figured from 

 the U. S. National Museum collection. 



An extremely interesting specimen of 

 this type of pipe is that represented in 

 fig. 235, which was collected by Mr. 

 Clarence B. Moore during the winter of 1897-98, in a momid on the 

 Savannah River. It, like most pipes of this type, is made of clay. 

 Opinions will probably differ as to the creature intended to be rep- 

 resented: looking at the side view, one could argue that a bird or 

 frog was imitated, while 

 regarding the face view, 

 it looks like some inde- 

 finible monster. The 

 type, however, is dis- 

 tinct, and the locality 

 in which it was discov- 

 ered is well within the 

 geographical area of 

 which i^ipes of this 

 class are found. This 

 specimen is the most 

 elaborate and in many 

 respects one of the most 

 interesting pipes with 

 which the writer is 

 acquainted. 



Fig. 236, from Loudon County, Tennessee, collected by Mr. J. W. 

 Emmert, is made of a red pottery, without apparent tempering, and 

 shows a somewhat difl'erent character of ornamentation in two serrated 

 ridges, one running up in front of the bowl and the other from the 

 stem up to the rim, while two serrated rows of ornamentation encircle 



After Clarence B. Mo 



rig. 235. 

 SOUTHERN MOUND PIPE. 



Side and front view. 



are. Certain Aboriginal Mounds of the Savannah River, 

 Georgia, p. 170. 



