INDIAN PIPES. 



Most of the ancient clay-pipes that have been dis- 

 covered have this form, which is not widely different 

 from that adopted by the later Indians. " The Vir- 

 ginians we observed to have pipes of clay before even 

 the English came there; and from those barbarians 

 we Europeans have borrowed our mode and fashion of 

 smoking."* 



Pipe-stems seem to be a much later addition to the 

 Indian pipe. I engrave an example of one from the 

 collection of the late 

 T. Crofton Croker ; it 

 is of black stone, and 

 is all cut from one 

 piece ; it bears traces 

 of European influence, 

 if indeed the figure be 

 not intended for an 

 European. It came 



from Upper Canada. A second from the same 

 place, also formed of black stone, seems constructed 

 to condense the oil of tobacco at the pointed ter- 

 mination of the bowl, a thin reed being inserted in 

 the small hole above, when the pipe is smoked. 

 Fig. 3, from the New York Government collection, 

 has a wooden tube inserted in the head of dark 

 green obsidian, which is sculptured with a loop to 

 allow of its being tied by a string to the stem. 



* Natural History of Tobacco in the Harleian Miscellany, vol. i. 

 p. 535. 



