Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . smallest part ofthe tube, which may or may not be midwaybetween the ends. A good specimen, illus-trated in figure 156, is of steatite, fromSevier county, Tennessee. 7). Of nearly uniform diameter inside andout; section circular, elliptical, or flattenedon one side. This form is exemplified byfigure 157, a specimen from North are also oneeach from Caldwell,Haywood, and Mont-gomery counties,North Carolina, all of;slate. JE. Round or ellip- |.jtical in section, | to 2£ inches long; prob Fw


Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . smallest part ofthe tube, which may or may not be midwaybetween the ends. A good specimen, illus-trated in figure 156, is of steatite, fromSevier county, Tennessee. 7). Of nearly uniform diameter inside andout; section circular, elliptical, or flattenedon one side. This form is exemplified byfigure 157, a specimen from North are also oneeach from Caldwell,Haywood, and Mont-gomery counties,North Carolina, all of;slate. JE. Round or ellip- |.jtical in section, | to 2£ inches long; prob Fw 155.—Tube, conical. ably beads. The collection includes spec-imens from Bradley county, Tennessee, of steatite; from Savannah,Georgia, of ferruginous sandstone; and from Union county, Mississippi,of jasper. Pipes. So much has been written concerning pipes that few references seemnecessary, and none will be given except from Col. R. I. Dodge, who,after an experience of many years among the Plains Indians, says thatthe latter have different pipes for different occasions, as the medicine.


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