ship, and brilliance of effect, these " bases," and " bowls," 

 and " stems " are beyond all praise, and offer an excellent 

 example for rivalry, to modern Western metal-work art. The 

 Eastern Archipelago presents examples not much less choice, 

 in the beautiful carvings of wood and ornamentation of brass 

 and silver, from Sumatra and Borneo ; while quaint pipes 

 come from Java — one unbarked grotesque, one pipe belonging 

 to William the Silent, having been presented with great cere- 

 mony to Mr. Bragge himself. 



Africa also contributes a great and most curious collection 

 to this great museum ; from the wood and brass pipes of 

 Algeria to the great gourd-pipes from Loando, and the huge 

 mouth-pieces of the Bechuana pipes, to fit great thick lips ; 

 the thick fringe-decorated leathern-looking pipes from 

 Ashantee and Dahomey, and Soudan and Assouan, and the 

 White Nile (collected by Consul Petherick) ; " Fan " pipes 

 brought by Du Chaillu ; the wood and steatite pipes from 

 Caffraria ; the bamboo pipes, for smoking hemp, from Central 

 Africa ; the huge pipes from the Dutch Transvaal territory, 

 of every size and shape, and every variety of barbaric 

 decoration, form a most interesting attraction ; such a collec- 

 tion never having been made before. 



America — North and South — the orginal habitat of 

 tobacco, shows still more strikingly : but ouJs^pace forbids 

 the full details which the marvellous examples deserve. 

 From the nameless "grave mounds" of Ohio, collected by 

 Squier and Davis, we have a small, hard, egg-like stone 

 bored for the bowl, and perforated for the reed of a pipe ; a 

 dozen broken pieces of earliest pottery, wherein primitive 

 tobacco was smoked ; small fragments from forgotten races, 

 dug out of mounds in Mexico and Central America ; with 

 dozens of superb specimens of the rich red stone of the 

 great Pipe-stone Quarry, which George Catlin first visited and 

 described ; a sample of an unfinished bowl from the quarry 

 itself; samples inlaid in quaint style by patient hands; some, 

 oddly but naturally carved with beavers and birds and 

 sharks ; some richly-broidered pipe-cases, of beads and hemp, 

 and one with the bright, black, plaited hair from a woman's 

 scalp ; tomahawks, to hack the enemy and smoke the pipe 

 of peace with ; " calumets " of every style, all full of 



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