Native American Pipe

In 2011 I published a post about a Native American pipe bowl I found many years ago in the water near Springer's Point (http://villagecraftsmen.blogspot.com/2011/04/native-american-pipe-bowl.html). I posted this photo:

Recently a friend found this fossilized bison's tooth in the water near where I discovered the pipe bowl (see http://villagecraftsmen.blogspot.com/2015/02/tooth-redux.html):

Just a few days ago another neighbor showed me this Native American pipe he found years ago:

A lot of fascinating activities were going on on Ocracoke Island before the first Europeans arrived. If only we knew more!

This month's Ocracoke Newsletter is about the 1977 recording of traditional Outer Banks folk music. You can read the article here: http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news032116.htm.