POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.

and owned by the Bureau of Ethnology at Washington,
is represented in Illustration No. 9, which has been fur-
nished by Mr. W. H. Holmes, who states that the
diameter at the rim is nine inches. The interior is
finished with a black polish produced by smother firing.
The outside is of a brownish color of baked clay and
covered with incised pattern made by means of an
engraved stamp.
Many quaint
allusions are
made by the early
historians to the
custom of smok-
ing among the
Indian tribes of
North America.
One chronicler
wrote in the sev-.
enteenth century,
that the Floridian
).\U. l1ll> N       "Iii   illio t oiY.  "salvaoes"  pos-
sessed "a kinde
of herbe dryed, which, with a cane and an earthen cup
in the end, with fire and the dryed herbes put to-
gether, do sucke thorow the cane the smoke thereof,
which smoke satisfieth their hunger, and therewith they
live foure or five dayes without meate or drinke." This
" cornet of claie," which was a common accessory to the
accoutrements of every warrior, is described by another
as "a little pan, hollowed at the one side, and within

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