. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 112 BULLETIN" 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL A pipe or small cloud blower made from altered serpentine, the exterior polished and the interior bored out with a flint drill is shown in figure 249. Judging from the bore the stone was difficult to work. The lower portion of the tube is ground off diagonally on account of fracture of the stone, or from preference. (Cat. No. 170535, Diameter, 1 inch; length, 2 inches. Tula- rosa Eiver, New Mexico. Collected by Henry Hales.) Another small cloud blower is made of fine tufa, the s
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 112 BULLETIN" 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL A pipe or small cloud blower made from altered serpentine, the exterior polished and the interior bored out with a flint drill is shown in figure 249. Judging from the bore the stone was difficult to work. The lower portion of the tube is ground off diagonally on account of fracture of the stone, or from preference. (Cat. No. 170535, Diameter, 1 inch; length, 2 inches. Tula- rosa Eiver, New Mexico. Collected by Henry Hales.) Another small cloud blower is made of fine tufa, the surface smoothly finished and bearing traces of paint. The specimen is unfinished. A hole is drilled in the lip near the orifice. (Fig. 250, Cat. No. 170534, —Pipe OF Diameter, 1] inches; length, 2f inches. SERPENTINE FROM TularosR Eivcr. New Mexico. Collected by Henry TuLAEOSA River. -^^ , , ' ^ j Hales.) Among the objects whose numufacture requires more than ordi- nary skill are the large tubes of stone which are called cloud blowers. Although made of comparatively soft material, usually tuff, they must have entailed a great deal of patient labor, especially in driving the central orifice through the tube. In some cases this was accomplished by repeated thrusts with a stone implement, the specimen showing on the interior many scorings. In many smaller tubes the boring was accomplished, appar- ently, with a large stick and sand. Cloud blowers are usually Jarge and are of two forms, one having a shoulder cut around it at the upper third, and tapering from thence to the orifice; the other has a raised band around the upper portion, or a groove takes the place of the band. They vary in length from 4 to 14 inches. Some years ago a cloud blower of excellent shape was found in a cave 25 miles west of Springerville, Arizona, by E. W. Nelson. It is worked from coarse yellow-brown tufa, and finished as carefully as the material allows (fig. 251), and is discolored som
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