Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes . re the bird-shaped pipes of whichFigs. 1, 2, and 3, Plate XXIII., may be regarded as in-teresting sj^ecimens. The first (Fig. 1) made of ser-pentine, is seven inches and a half from the tip of thebeak to the end of the tail, three inches in height tothe top of the bowl, and two inches and two-tenthsin width just in rear of the bow]. The bowl is aninch and a half in diameter at the top, circular inshape, and an inch and five-eighths in depth. Thewalls of the bowl are three-eighths of an inch in thick-ness. The aperture fo
Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes . re the bird-shaped pipes of whichFigs. 1, 2, and 3, Plate XXIII., may be regarded as in-teresting sj^ecimens. The first (Fig. 1) made of ser-pentine, is seven inches and a half from the tip of thebeak to the end of the tail, three inches in height tothe top of the bowl, and two inches and two-tenthsin width just in rear of the bow]. The bowl is aninch and a half in diameter at the top, circular inshape, and an inch and five-eighths in depth. Thewalls of the bowl are three-eighths of an inch in thick-ness. The aperture for the stem, commencing underthe tail, passes longitudinally through the body of thepipe until it intersects the bowl at its bottom. Atits inception this aperture is an inch in diameter, grad-ually lessening as it deepens, until at the point whereit communicates with the bowl it is only a quarter ofan inch in width. The weight of this pipe is nearlytwo pounds. The length of the second (Fig. 2) does not vary aquarter of an inch from that of the first. Its weight AM PfiOro-UTHOGHAPHIC OSBOffSES PROCESS. CALUMETS AXD BIRD-SHAPED PIPES. 405 exceeds, however, by rather more than a quarter of apound, and its height is three inches and three-quar-ters. The shape of the bowl is elliptical—its wallsbeing half an inch thick. In depth this bowl meas-ures two inches and a quarter. Its diameters at thetop, reckoned respectively in the direction of the ma-jor and minor axes of the ellipse, are an inch and a half and an inch and three-tenths. The perforationfor the stem is also elliptical, its greatest and least di-ameters beins: six-eighths and five-eighths of an aperture is half an inch in diameter where it en-ters the bowl. This pipe is made of serpentine, and,like the former, has been carefully polished. The third pipe (Fig. 3) is of oolite, of a cream-color, and weighs two pounds and a half is six inches and a half in length, and about fourinch
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