NORTH AMERICA.
We have now come round to the original home of Tobacco & smoking: to the Land of the “CALUMET of PEACE” & the “TOMAHAWK PIPE” & where Sir Iohn Hawkins & Raleigh. Drake first saw the “Weed” in use. The despisers of the “Weed” may chuckle may they hear the old Proverb “that ill Weeds grow apace” for it has grown & must be very infectious nor is there any falling off for “Steamers” go & there The Goddess NICOTINA will surely take root such is the experience up to the present time—
N. AMERICA.
There is hardly room to do justice to a good north American “Pipe of Peace” on these small pages but those who are really interested in the Pipe customs & functions of the Indian tribes will derive much pleasure & information too from consulting “CATLINs” works on those subjects. The best pipes have flat stems much ornamented & the Bowls of elaborate design are very quaint & original the simpler ones are red the more curious in a dark slate & a kind of green stone. The British museum has naturally a very fine collection of all the varieties of both materials—.
N·AMERICA
The Indian graves have supplied specimens of very great antiquity from all parts of N. America and a fine collection of MOUND PIPES was presented some years ago to the City of Salisbury. Those on the opposite page will give a general idea of the character of these real antiquities in which the bird is a prominent object probably some sacred Bird—in vogue amongst the tribe at the time they were made but we must not surmise “FACTA” “non Verba” is true ARCHÆOLOGY.
N. AMERICA.
Stone pipes still predominate & the upper one from South Carolina has a new form with a cut-water or fore-foot suggestive that it should be held by that part when being smoked.
The “NOOTKA SOUND” example is another variety & to our modern eye wd. appear to have been designed by a carpenter still the bowl itself carries a decidedly modern impress The modern N. American pipes are most carved in Slate and some are quite processional in design and length.
ARCTIC PIPES
& LAPLAND.
In this part of the world there is not much material for the making of Pipes for the only wood is generally brought up by the kindly Gulf Stream from the West Indies even to NOVA ZEMBLA still the sparse Inhabitants fall back on the tooth of the “Walrus” & very comely looking pipes are the result. The Laplanders pipe is generally made of thin iron which may be accounted for by the proximity of the once very famous “SWEDISH” Iron.
