Show Highly Aric Artistic ic Pips Pipes in Use Among Aeng Indians The Tho history of our o pipe pine begins hegins with the discovery er of tobacco by hy he the I Span lards arils In Central America A There pipes lilIeS hail bad h ll been used by II the In Indians lans for fora or ora a cry very loci Ion long time In III the time ancient mo ot of I the Hie Mississippi lIssis valley large numbers ls l's of or pipes lilies were lound On the of th these se pipes filliPS time tho artistic skill of if I heir t coins cents 10 Io hn have c hen h with n a of lr care antl In ingenuity IIII bestowed on fin nu lilt lit other troth oik The Tile early In Indian lau pipes S are lt Into singular dehos devices de de- vices hos Figures ol III ii till the human hea head and of various birds and rep rep- tiles Ih They Ihry l' l are lire all ex executed ecU t e In min min- I lature alme but hut with great rent lI fidelity eUty to naj na- na j fure An old writer r remarks s that not j only are the features of the time various j i objects represented faithfully but butI j I their peculiarities and habits are In InS InI I S same une me degree exhibited The otter holds a fish In his mouth month the hawk grasps a 1 small bir bird In his talons and so on The peculiar feature o of these prehistoric prehistoric prehistoric pre pre- historic pipes Is that thc they are carved out of hard stone and that the they have no stem The tobacco howl bowl Is usually In the head of or the animal anima figure and anda n a thin carefully drilled tutee tube IN leads 8 t tone to toone one one nc end nd of the elongated base hase A Apparently Ap Ap- the smoker er puts pills his lips tips 1 Immediately Im m- m mediately to the stone without using a special stem or mouthpiece mouthpiece-Mo mouthpiece MOB MOB- o. o treal Family Herald |