. Bulletin. Ethnology. held in great veneration. Some pipes were guarded by a specially appointed oflicial and were kept in fur with the greatest care in specially designated tents, or contained in a case made for the pur- pose. The palladium (q. v.) of the Ara- paho is a flat stone pipe which has been seen by only one white man (Mooney (1) in 14th Rep. B. A. E.,961,1896, (2) in Mem. Am. Anthrop. Ass'n, I, no. 6, 1907; Scott in Am. An- throp., IX, no. 3, 1907). Certain of their dance pipes are also flat, i. e. the stem and the bowl are in the same plane. The word "calumet" (q. v.) wa
. Bulletin. Ethnology. held in great veneration. Some pipes were guarded by a specially appointed oflicial and were kept in fur with the greatest care in specially designated tents, or contained in a case made for the pur- pose. The palladium (q. v.) of the Ara- paho is a flat stone pipe which has been seen by only one white man (Mooney (1) in 14th Rep. B. A. E.,961,1896, (2) in Mem. Am. Anthrop. Ass'n, I, no. 6, 1907; Scott in Am. An- throp., IX, no. 3, 1907). Certain of their dance pipes are also flat, i. e. the stem and the bowl are in the same plane. The word "calumet" (q. v.) was early employed as the name of a dance. Mar- quette referred to the calumet in 1675, not only in the latter sense, but also as a pipe. Father Biard, in 1616, and Father Hennepin, in 1679, applied the term to the pipe, in which sense it is still employed. Various early writ- ers refer to a calumet of peace and one of w^ar, the former being white, the latter red. Lafitau (Moeursdes Ameriquains, ii, 327,1721) re- fers to the calumet as a true altar where sacrifice was made to the sun; he also speaks of the calumet of peace. The bowl of the calumet pipe of the Sioux is at a right angle to the stem, and has a solid projection ex tending in front of the bowl. In the older specimens. NEW York; Stalagmite, (length, 4 in.) of this type high polish and carved figures are unusual; with modern ex- amples, however, high polish is com- mon and the stems are often elaborately carved. In compara- tively recent time in- laying became usual, geometrical or animal figures being cut in the stone into which thin strips of lead were inlaid. Pipestems are straight, curved, or twisted; round or flat; long or short. Elaborate ornaments for the stems have been said to be made by the women with beads, porcupine quills, feathers, hair, etc., but it is probable that they were put on by the men. The design of the pipe. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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