The stone age in North America, vol. 2 of 2 — John Shaqi
The stone age in North America, vol. 2 of 2Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
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The stone age in North America, vol. 2 of 2
Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
Indians of North America -- Antiquities; Stone age -- North America
FIG. 440. (S. 2–3.) Double conoidal pipe. J. P. Schumacher’s
collection. “A very attractive example, from Brown County,
Wisconsin, is of dark sandstone, nearly 4 inches long, 2½ inches
high, 3 inches wide, and oval in shape with a flat base. Its stem
and bowl cavities are each fully an inch in diameter at the surface,
and are placed at right angles to each other. This pipe was
evidently pecked into shape, both bowl and stem holes being made by
the same process.”
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The modern Sioux, Ojibwa, and Winnebago and other pipes between the
years 1700 and 1850 are interesting by way of comparison. Mr. West[11]
wrote a few paragraphs concerning them, which I quote.
“No pipe was ever regarded by the American aborigine with greater
reverence and respect than the calumet. It was used in the ratification
of treaties and alliances; in the friendly reception of strangers; as a
symbol in declaring war or peace, and afforded its bearer safe transport
among savage tribes. Its acceptance sacredly sealed the terms of peace,
and its refusal was regarded as a rejection of them.
[Illustration:
FIG. 441. (S. 1–2.) Black pottery pipe. Collection of G. A. West,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “This is a type of Southern mound pipe taken
from a mound in Pepin County, Wisconsin. It is well tempered with
shell, contains eight knobs or coffee-bean protuberances about the
bowl, and the stem is ornamented on one side by a zigzag line,
probably intended to represent the emblem of lightning. This pipe is
3¼ inches long, and the only one of its kind so far found in this
state.”
]
“Calumets made of steatite, limestone, sandstone, and granite, are often
found, but a large majority of them are made of catlinite, a compact
clay slate, named after Mr. George Catlin, who lived for many years
among the Indians, and to whom great credit is due for his many
portraits and other paintings true to aboriginal life. The color of
catlinite is usually cherry red, often mottled and shading into ash,
grey, or black. This material was quarried by the Indians in several
places in Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Missouri, and in Barron County,
Wisconsin. Specimens of ‘pipestone’ are sometimes secured from the
glacial drift. Pipes of catlinite are not necessarily of modern make.
Examples have been found, over a wide area, in Indian mounds and graves.
In 1880 a broken pipe of this material was found by Ole Rasmussen, in
the town of Farmington, Waupaca County, while digging a well, eighteen
or twenty feet below the surface. The material has been known, under
different names, ever since the Discovery.
[Illustration:
FIG. 442. (S. 1–1.) A pipe of banded slate from the collection of
Albert L. Addis, Albion, Indiana. Pipes of slate are not wanting,
and they are usually either rounded or angular. It is seldom that
the banded slate is worked into pipe effigies.
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