EARTHENWARE OF THE NEW YORK ABORIGINES I3I 



man's prominent back, giving it the appearance of a very plump 

 skeleton^ but these are but customary ornaments. If it once had a 

 head, as is probable^ the fracture has been neatly smoothed and 

 hardly appears. 



Many fine examples of pipes, perfect and fragmentary, may be 

 seen in the state collection, which is now rich in articles of this 

 kind, through the energetic efforts of Mr A. G. Richmond, to whose 

 knowledge of aboriginal art we owe so much. In the fine local 

 collection of Mr Twining, made in Jefferson county,, in those of 

 Messrs Peck, Crone and Moseley, of Ontario and Genesee counties, 

 will be found specimens which will elicit admiration. A few of 

 these will be shown from photographs, partly because they have 

 features so remarkable^ in some cases, that no- suspicion of artistic 

 fancy should rest on their reproduction. In all the illustrations 

 in these bulletins accuracy has been aimed at, but a photograph will 

 remove any lingering doubt, should such exist in the minds of any. 

 These plates are reduced. 



Fig. 210 is of a pipe from Genesee county, where a combination 

 is occasionally met with in a somewhat different way. A man's 

 head faces the smoker, and above this, on the other 'side of the 

 bowl, is an uplifted animal's head. There are the usual grooves, 

 and an arm or leg appears below the animal's head. The pipe is 

 black, and quite angular, and is 5| inches long. 



Fig. 211 is one of the most remarkable pipes in the collectionj, in 

 some ways, and comes from Mr W. L. Stone's collection, mostly 

 made in Saratoga county, or in that vicinity. It is commonly 

 known as the Washington pipe, and as the full resemblance depends 

 on little things the aid of the camera has been called in that every 

 minute detail might be suppHed. The figure of a sitting man forms 

 the bowl, the bust out of proportion to the lower parts^ but art 

 requires some conventionalism. The head is fine, the hair full, and 

 gathered into a cue which hangs low down on the back. In 

 some points of view the resemblance to Washington is very strik- 

 ing, but it is a type of pipe anterior to his day by nearly loo years. 

 The head is characteristically European; the work that of an Iro- 

 quois. We need not be surprised at this. If the native artist could 



