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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e earliest timeswas recognized by nearly all the American tribes. There is no custom, says Catlin,1 more uniformlyin constant use amongst the poor Indians than that ofsmoking, nor any other more highly valued. His pipeis his constant companion through life—his messengerof peace; he pledges his friends through its stem andits bowl, and when its care-drowning fumes cease toflow, it takes a place with him in his solitary grave,with his tomahawk and war-club, companions to hislong-fancied, 1 mild, and beautiful hunting-grounds. These common pipes were made both of stone andclay, generally of the latter material. They are usuallyof a size capable of being easily transported, and arenot much heavier than the ordinary pipe of the presentday. Some are no bigger in the bowl than a thimble.Of the stone pipes, Figs. 2 and 6, Plate XXIV., may be 1 Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North Ameri-can Indians, etc., vol. i., seventh edition, p. 235. London, 1848. Plate JUS.
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AM PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC CO. N.Y.( OSBomes PROCESS. COMMON PIPES OF STONE AND CLAY. 411 regarded as fine specimens, perhaps rather more deli-cate than those in common use. The pipe represent-ed by Fig. 2 was found near the large mound on theplantation of Mr. J. H. Nichols, in Nacoochee Valley.Made of a hard black stone, it has been formed withmuch regularity and delicacy. The walls of the bowlare very thin, scarcely thicker than the sides of a sad.dlers thimble. The composition of the clay pipes is precisely thesame as that used by the Indians of this region in themanufacture of their pottery, red and blue clay mixedwith powdered shells or fine gravel. Figs. 4 and 7, Plate XXIV., represent two pipesof this description taken from earth-mounds on theOcmulgee River, not far from Macon; while thosedelineated in Figs. 3 and 5, Plate XXIV., were found inshell-mounds on the Colonels Island. Fragments ofpipes of this composition are not infrequent, and attesttheir general use among the ancient i

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