640 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



a small clear i)Ool, wlieuce it was cousuined by tbe many parched 

 mouths by sacking it up through hollo\y reindeer marrowbones, in 

 exactly the same manner in which we enjoy a sherry cobbler through a 

 straw/' ' 



Dr. Barber says: "The Pah Utes, according to Mr. Edward Palmer, 

 use the leaves of Arctostaphylos tomentosa, the Manzauita of the Spanish, 

 for tobacco and also as a medicine." 



Mr. A. E. Douglass has in his collection a very remarkable brown 

 stone pipe, belonging to the biconical type in the form of a human 

 head. It was found it is said about 100 feet from a small rock mound 

 near Coolville, Athens County, Ohio. The mouth, apparently the 

 bowl, shows that it has been bored out by means of a tubular drill as 

 there is a jirotuberance at the bottom. The ears are carved to give 

 the impression of having in them the familiar copper discoidal spools 

 at times found in Ohio. The specimen jjresents every appearance of 

 genuineness and some of its features are unique. It has been badly 

 battered by children who have played with it. 



Prince Maximilian, of Wied, refers to some of the Indians of Indiana 

 who smoked sumac leaves in wooden pipes. '-The Cherokees also of 

 the Southern States used wooden pipes carved in the form of bears, 

 the bowl being in the back and the tube orifice near the tail.''- 



The pipe here described might be the biconoidal pipes referred to, or 

 possibly it might refer to a pipe illustrated by Schoolcraft and now in 

 the museum of the University of Pennsylvania. This pipe is cut 

 through a block of chlorite, which exteriorlj^ is of a rude animal shape, 

 the legs being represented in low relief, as seen in fig. 157. The eye is 

 cut into the stone. The stem opening of this pipe and the bowl, which 

 were from Camden, South Carolina, are almost in the same plane and 

 would entitle it to be classed rather with the tubular pipes than with 

 another form. The surface of this pipe is black and glossy, and it 

 would appear entitled to be classed among unique specimens, the form 

 being apparently given by means of the hammer stone by pecking. 



Holm (piotes P. Lindstrom, about 1G50, who he says writes as fol- 

 lows: "Their money is of shells, white, black, and red, and worked 

 into beads and neatly turned and smoothed. One person, however, 

 can not make more in a day than the value of six or eight stivers. 

 When those beads are worn out so that they can not be strung neatly 

 and evenly on the thread, they no longer consider them as good. 

 Their way of trying them is to rub the whole thread full on their noses, 

 and if they find it slides smooth and even, like glass beads, then they 

 are considered good. Otherwise, they break and throw them away. 

 Their manner of measuring the length of their strings is by their 



' Eivind Astrup, In the Land of the northernmost Eskimo, from Fortnightly 

 Review, Littoll's Living Age, No. 2701, p. 112. 



'^Travels in the Interior of North America, London, 1843, trunaliited fToiu (Icrman 

 bv Llovd. 



