642 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



solid drill point. rii)es of this character appear to belong to a dis- 

 tinct type when it is considered over how extensive a territory speci- 

 mens have been found, reaching from Tennessee to Wisconsin. The 

 type has every indication of being modern. 



A photograph in the XJ. S. National Museum of a bird pipe of the 

 type of tig". 121, collected by Maj. W. B. Camp, from Sacketts Harbor, 

 New York, has a hole bored from side to side of the knob represent- 

 ing the feet. The pipe is smoothly ground and apparently made of 

 indurated clay. 



The natives of western Pennsylvania about 1700 are said according 

 to Loudon to have made " burnt oflt'erings to their deceased relatives, 

 such as tobacco, bread," etc. ' 



As did the natives of Virginia at the advent of the whites, and in 

 this exceedingly rare work, it is related that Tecaughretanego, after 

 building himself a sweat house and puritying himself therein, came 

 out and began to pray and cast the last of his cherished tobacco into 

 the fire; he then is said to have handed his white companion his pipe 

 to smoke, though at that time he had nothing to smoke but red willow 

 bark. ^ 



The mixture of other plants with tobacco is here also noted and the 

 friendly smoking referred to. "They are," it is said, "very fond of 

 tobacco and the men almost all smoke it mixed with sumac leaves or 

 red willow bark pulverized,'' and these Indians are said seldom to use 

 it any other way.-' 



The conjurer's or medicine man's i^ractices appear identical with those 

 in other parts of the continent, as related in McCulloh's Narrative, 

 contained in this work, in which the scene is described of a woman who 

 places her hands one over the other upon a boil and sucking the hand 

 and pretending to hand something from the moutli to the medicine 

 man, who stepped out of the hut. A few days later he returns and 

 smokes "qush-a-tik ok killick ken-eek can;" that is, tobacco and 

 mixture such as sumac leaves, red sally bark."^ 



Kalm refers to the wam])um about 1749. He says: "Many people 

 at Albany make the wampum of the Indians, which is their ornament 

 and their money, by grinding some kind of shells and muscles. This is 

 a considerable profit to the inhabitants."' 



Soon after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, in December, 

 1620, namely, March 10, 1621, " Samoset came boldly among them and 

 spoke to them in broken English, which yet they could understand, at 

 which they marveled, but at length they understood that he belonged 

 to the eastern parts of the country, and had acquaintance with sundry 



'Archibald Loudou, A Selection of the Most Interesting Narratives of Outrages 

 Coinniitted by the Indians in their Wars with tho White People, I, p. 341, Carlisle, 

 180S. 



-• Idem, I, p. 237. 



3 Idem, I, p. 276. 



■> Itl(!nj, I, ]). 354. 



•"'Peter Kalm, Travels into North America, II, p. 261, London, 1771. 



