. Bulletin. Ethnology. 29.—Klama11i->ro<]oc pipc^ howls. The four-stick game is confined in California to the northeastern corner of the State. The Modoc and Klamath pipe makes an un-Californian impres- sion. It is a stone bowl smoked with a wooden stem; and it is L-form, not tubular. Some specimens are nearly straight, but even these show a slight upward bend toward the opening. Most com- mon is an obtuse-angled bowl, but right-angled ones occur (Fig. 20). -V special variety is a stone disk, Avith two holes bored to meet at right angles, one for the stem, the other for the tobacco. This
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 29.—Klama11i->ro<]oc pipc^ howls. The four-stick game is confined in California to the northeastern corner of the State. The Modoc and Klamath pipe makes an un-Californian impres- sion. It is a stone bowl smoked with a wooden stem; and it is L-form, not tubular. Some specimens are nearly straight, but even these show a slight upward bend toward the opening. Most com- mon is an obtuse-angled bowl, but right-angled ones occur (Fig. 20). -V special variety is a stone disk, Avith two holes bored to meet at right angles, one for the stem, the other for the tobacco. This form appears to have gained in vogue of late years, but inasmuch as it is quite imlike anything European, and is not known from neighboring tribes, it must be reckoned a native product. California pipes are normally of one material, whether that be stone, wood, cane, or clay; and if composite, they are structurally of one piece. Thus the wood and stone pipe of the Northwest is a wooden implement with a steatite lining to its IioavI, the Chumash. shell and bone pipe is of stone with a small piece of bird bone inserted for convenience of sucking. True two-piece or stemmed pipes are 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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