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The Moses Coulee Pipe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Alan G. May
Alan G. May*
Affiliation:
North Central Washington Museum Association, Wenatchee, Washington
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Extract

Many unusual and decorative pipes of the early Indians have been discovered in the Northwest, but, as far as it is ascertainable, only one pipe of considerable antiquity has ever been found enclosed in a wooden case especially designed to fit the pipe. Such a pipe and case, which the writer fortunately was able to acquire at a later date, were found in 1934. Considering the exceptional rarity of such a “find” it would seem that these specimens are worthy of some consideration.

Moses Coulee is a great chasm formed by the ice and waters of bygone ages; it is about forty miles in length, approximately one mile wide, and from six hundred to one thousand feet deep, entering the Columbia River valley about twenty miles below the city of Wenatchee, Washington. This district is well known for the abundance of the archaeological material and particularly for the fine craftsmanship of the majority of artifacts.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , October 1942 , pp. 167 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1942

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References

1 A previous description of this artifact, under an identical title by Charles Hill-Tout, appeared in Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, XXIX, Sec. 2, pp. 219—224, 1935. As the circulation of this publication differs from that of American Antiquity we publish herein Mr. May's article in which a certain amount of new information is included.