The very form of the pestle shown in [Fig. 34] and the symmetrical outline of the club shown in [Fig. 62] are in themselves somewhat artistic, while the fact that the pipe shown in [Fig. 113] somewhat represents a tomahawk or hatchet suggests that it may have been sculptured as representative art. It seems likely that it was modelled after the metal tomahawk pipe introduced by the traders which of course would indicate that it was recently made.
Coast Art. The pipe shown in [Fig. 127] which was mentioned on [p. 116] is clearly of the art of the northwest coast. It must have been brought to this region from as far at least, as the Kwakiutl and Haida region, and may be the work of an artist from that part of the coast, on Vancouver Island, north of Comox. Although in a fragmentary condition, this sculpture exhibits an excellent technique of its style of art. Astride of the stem is a human figure with the left hand to the chest, and the right one resting on the right knee. The head is missing, the chest muscular. The other end of the pipe apparently represents the thunder bird. The head and most of the figure are bilaterally symmetrical. The beak is cut off in such a manner as to form a flat surface at the tip. The feathers of the rear portion of the left wing extend in a different direction from those on the tip, while those of the right wing are parallel with those on the rear part of the left wing. The lower side or tail of this bird figure is broken off, but it probably extended to the broken place shown at the neck of the human face on the base of the pipe. In it, may be seen a groove, the half of a longitudinal perforation which does not connect with the pipe bowl. The carving on the right side of the pipe bowl, the top of which is broken away, is practically the same as that on the left, while the base is carved to represent a human head.
Fig. 128. Sculptured and Inlaid Pipe made of Steatite with Wooden Stem. From Chief Moses of the Yakima Region. ½ nat. size. (Drawn from photograph 44508, 6-9, 6-10, 6-11. Original in the collection of Mrs. Lynch.)
FOOTNOTES:
[347] A few of which were figured and described in Smith, (g), pp. 195-203, and abstracted in The Scientific American Supplement, pp. 23876-8, Vol. LVIII, No. 1490, July 23, 1904, and in Records of the Past, pp. 119-127, Vol. IV, Part IV, April, 1905.
[348] Smith, (c), Figs. 360b and 378; (d), Figs. 109, 110 and 111.
[349] Lewis, p. 191.