. Bulletin. Ethnology. Ohio; Stone; Length, 3^ (sQuiER AND Davis) cleaning or to collect the liquid in order to mix it with fresh tobacco. Some Es- kimo pipes are made from walrus or fossil ivory, and are elaborately engraved with fishing and hunting scenes. Pipes of this character are now made for sale, as is the case with very elaborately carved specimens made by the Haida and Tlin- git. Among the many American pipes none is more remarkable than those belonging to the biconical type, found in Canada and along the Mississippi. Some of these are perfectly plain, others are elaborately carved i
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Ohio; Stone; Length, 3^ (sQuiER AND Davis) cleaning or to collect the liquid in order to mix it with fresh tobacco. Some Es- kimo pipes are made from walrus or fossil ivory, and are elaborately engraved with fishing and hunting scenes. Pipes of this character are now made for sale, as is the case with very elaborately carved specimens made by the Haida and Tlin- git. Among the many American pipes none is more remarkable than those belonging to the biconical type, found in Canada and along the Mississippi. Some of these are perfectly plain, others are elaborately carved in imitation of men and animals. The term "biconical" has been employed for the reason that both bowl and stem perforations are of cone shape, the smaller end of the cones meet- ing at approximately the center of the specimens, at a right angle to each other. The most artistically finished of all American pipes are those of the mound type, of which Squier and Davis (Ancient Monu- ments, 152,1848) found more than 200 in a single mound in Ohio. These pipes ap- parently were smoked without stems, although they showno marks of the teeth. The stems as a rule are not orna- mented, though the bowls are carved with great skill in imitation of birds, frogs, turtles, beaver, men, etc. Another typical and delicately fash- ioned stone pipe is found in the middle Atlantic states; it has a flat base, the bowl being generally but not always at a right angle to the stem. The bowl, which is large in comparison with other pipes from this section, is rarely ornamented but is usually highly polished. The tomahawk or hatchet pipe is made of metal; it is provided with an eye to receive a handle, and a sharp blade for use in cutting wood or as an offensive weapon. The poll of the hatchet, shaped like an acorn, is hollow and has a hole in the base, connecting with an opening extending through the helve, through which the smoke was drawn. Many of these pipes were inlaid with silver in ornament
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