CLASSES OF PIPES. 



129 

 Each is 



pipe, peace pipe, council pipe, and a pipe for common use. 

 sacred to its own purpose.' 



lu an article so highly prized by its owner, great pains would be 

 expended to give an ornamental appearance to one which would be 

 Used on important ceremonial occasions; and it would be carved or 

 worked in a manner gratifying to its maker or the one for M'hom it 



Fig. 156. — Tube, liour-gla.ss form. 



was intended. This fact, and the statement quoted above, will explain 

 the great variety in form from a limited area. Still, in some sections 

 of the country there are certain types that prevail, and may be in 

 some cases peculiar to tliese localities; such, for instance, are the long 

 stemmed pipes from western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. 

 In many pipes of soft stone the bowl is gouged out instead of drilled. 



Fia. 157.— Tube, cylindrical. 



The i)ipes in the Bureau collection embrace the following classes: 



A. Stem with an elliptical or somewhat triangular section; the bowl 

 near one end, leaving a projection in front; stem hole in long end. 

 The form is shown in figure 158. From Caldwell county, North Caro- 

 lina there are two similar pipes of stea- 

 tite. Another, from Preston county. 

 West Virginia, differs only in having 

 the stem hole in the short end. 



B. Sameform of stem ; no projection 

 in front, the bottom of the stem curv- 

 ing up gradually into the front of the 

 bowl. This type is represented by flg- ' Fm iss-iipt, fl.i i •, 



lire 159 (of steatite, from a mound in Loudon county, Tennessee). 

 There are also, from Kaiiawlia valley, West Virginia, an example of 

 talcose slate, and from Caldwell county. North Carolina, one of steatite. 



C. Stem having a midrib in which the hole is bored. One of stea- 

 tite, from Caldwell county, North Carcdina, has a prow; the others 

 have not. Another of steatite from Loudon county, Tennessee, has a 

 slender projection below the bowl, as if for a handle. The axis of the 



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