. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 7.—a, Blackfoot modified Micmac pipe bowls, 1833. (After Carl Bodmer.) h. Plains Cree (left) and Blackfoot (right) modified Micmac pipe bowls, period 1850. (After Henry Yule Hind.) The wood cuts referred to are reproduced here as figure 7, a. I showed these illustrations to Weasel Tail, Blood Indian informant, in 1943. He said that he had seen Blackfoot pipes in the shape of the figure on the right, but could not recall ever having seen a pipe made by these Indians in the form of a low bowl on a heavy block such as appears in the drawing on the left. In 1860, Henr
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 7.—a, Blackfoot modified Micmac pipe bowls, 1833. (After Carl Bodmer.) h. Plains Cree (left) and Blackfoot (right) modified Micmac pipe bowls, period 1850. (After Henry Yule Hind.) The wood cuts referred to are reproduced here as figure 7, a. I showed these illustrations to Weasel Tail, Blood Indian informant, in 1943. He said that he had seen Blackfoot pipes in the shape of the figure on the right, but could not recall ever having seen a pipe made by these Indians in the form of a low bowl on a heavy block such as appears in the drawing on the left. In 1860, Henry Yule Hind, explorer of the Canadian Plains, pic- tured both a Plains Cree and a Blackfoot pipe bowl (Hind, 1860, vol. 2, p. 140). His line drawings are reproduced as figure 7, &, of this paper. Notice that the type Hind designated "Cree," resembles Maximilian's squat "Blackfoot" type which was unfamiliar to Weasel Tail, while Hind's tall-bowled Blackfoot pipe is like the one both Maximilian and Weasel Tail designated Blackfoot pipe bowls. While it is possible that the low-bowled type may have been a Black- foot one that went out of fashion about mid-century, it appears more likely that this was not a Blackfoot but a Cree pipe form. * * Bodmer's original field sketch of a Blackfoot Indian smoking a pipe, which was dis- played in the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service's exhibition of Bodmer originals, certainly depicts a pipe bowl which is much like the one on the right in figure 7, a (Pope, 1954, No. 89).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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