NEW GUINEA.
Bamboo is the material now in vogue and the mouth piece is cunningly arranged by making a small hole at the joint for the draught & bore. The Tobacco tube which cannot be called a bowl but rather a cigar or cigarette holder is always at right angles to the thick stem which averages 14in & 15in. in length. The ornamentation like that of “CHINAM” cases is very delicate & refined. The South Pacific affords us a shell pipe and from SAVO & the SOLOMON ISLANDS. we have a very simple contribution one would have expected colour from them certainly as well as from New Guinea
SOUTH AMERICA
& Paraguay River.
The Spanish influence in South America has not been likely to contribute to the developement of Pipe smoking, but we find native specimens of considerable interest Beginning from the South in Magellan Straits. The Patagonians. use the small short form which was in Mr. Braggs collection above that is quite a new feature a square pipe of 13in. in length used on Great State occasions—the sides ornamented with a Key pattern & steps as on HUACA · POTTERY in Peru. The large Bowl with small bone mouth piece is from River UCAYALI · Peru. & Fish tail of wood is from MATACO Indians. GRAN·CHACA
