Identifier: annualreportofbu20smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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c c c c 30000 00 000 00 00 0 0000000000 INCISED DESIGNS FROM VASESIROQUOIAN GROUP BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT PL. CLIII
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FACES AND FIGURES FROM VASES IROQUOIAN GROUP(ACTUAL SIZE) HELIOTYPE CO., BOSTON. HOLMES) IROQ0OIAN TOBACCO PIPES 173 people the manufacture of clay pipes was, no doubt, practiced paripassu with that of vase making-, but it seems in many ways to ha\-ebeen a distinct and independent art. Pipes were not made of the samevarieties of cla)-, or >)y the same hands, as were the vases. In allproliabilit) claj^ pipes were the work of men, as were the pipes ofstone, while vessel making- was the work of women. That pijje mak-ing- was contemporaneous with vase making is shown bj the repetitionin ijipe bowls of the form and deco-ation of vases, T)ut it is apparentthat the former art continued long- after the cessation of the pottersart proper, extending- down nearly or quite to Revolutionary timesin the North, and down to the piesent day in the South among- theCherokees. In support of the theory of the later use of pipes ofnative make may be cited the fact that pipes are especially plentifulon t

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