Hello: 

I'm a student at the University of Chicago, and I'm hoping to get opinions on 
some pipe bowl fragments found this summer in New Orleans, Louisiana behind 
St. Antoine's church.  I've uploaded a picture at    http://archaeoseek.ning.com/
photo/pipe-lot-135?context=user   The four incised fragments on the 
left are the pipe bowl.  They appear to be hand built, have a black residue on the 
inside that has yet to be tested but that indicates it was used, and date to the 
early- to mid-1700s. 

So far I've been unable to identify either tribal provenience or even a general 
area it might have come from.  The incisions don't follow typical Mississippian 
patterns and the pipe shape itself is more typically European.  This is my first 
time working with pipes, so if there are any good typologies out there for North 
America that I somehow missed, I'd appreciate that information, plus of course 
any insights you have to offer about this particular artifact.   

Cordially, 

Sarah Sticha