. League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois . of black pottery, well finished, andnearly as hard as marble, and is also representedat its actual size. In some specimens the bowl isfronted with a human face, or with a wolf or dogs Ch- I] INDIAN POTTERY. 355 head. Frequently these imitations are delicately,even exquisitely made. Another species of pipe, in AH-SO-QUA-TA, or IROQUOIS PIPE, LIMA, LIV. CO., N. Y. use among the Iroquois in later times, was cut outof soap-stone, which yields readily to metallic instru-ments. A representation of one of these pipes of 356 INCIDENT TO THE LEAGUE. [Book
. League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois . of black pottery, well finished, andnearly as hard as marble, and is also representedat its actual size. In some specimens the bowl isfronted with a human face, or with a wolf or dogs Ch- I] INDIAN POTTERY. 355 head. Frequently these imitations are delicately,even exquisitely made. Another species of pipe, in AH-SO-QUA-TA, or IROQUOIS PIPE, LIMA, LIV. CO., N. Y. use among the Iroquois in later times, was cut outof soap-stone, which yields readily to metallic instru-ments. A representation of one of these pipes of 356 INCIDENT TO THE LEAGUE. [Book ni. Seneca manufacture, will be found in the plate (seepage 104.) It is fronted witL a human face, and de-signed to be used with a stem-piece of reed. Theother, in the same plate, is also a modern Iroquoispipe, made of Catlinite, or the red Missouri pipe-stone. Pipes of this description are used chieflyamong the Sioux, by whom they were introducedinto use, and other western Indians; and wererather accidental, than common among the PIPE OP THE MOUND BUILLERS, VALLEY OF THE GENESEE, Ch. L] EARTHEN VESSELS. 357 This pipe is anomalous. It is of black marble,highly polished, with the bowl and stem bored withgreat precision. Doubtless it is a relic of the Mound Builders, which, having found its wayinto the hands of a Seneca, was finally buried byhis side in the valley of the Genesee, to be againbrought to light upon the excavation of the Valleycanal. Like the pipes of that era, it has the bowlin the central part of the stone. In material, also,and in finish, it is unlike, and superior to the pipesof the Iroquois.
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