Catlinite Pipe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: *SIOUX. REMARKS: ILLUS. IN USNM REPT. PART I 1897; FIG. 178; P. 579. *ILLUS.: EWERS, JOHN C. PLAINS INDIAN SCULPTURE; FIG. 87, PG. 103. IDENTIFIED THERE AS QUESTIONABLY PHALLIC SYMBOL PIPE; SIOUX." 1897 USNM Annual Report description of this pipe, as referenced above, describes pipe: "... represents a man facing the smoker, the bowl being bored through the head and body. It is about 4 1/4 inches long with a height of 2 1/2 inches. Though the position of the figure is not an easy one it is carved entirely in the round with unusual artistic feeling, the legs being drawn up slightly on the stem with the hands and arms extended along the legs and knees. It is of quite modern form, and there is yet wrapped around the neck a coil of fine brass wire [no longer present], which in contrast to the cherry red of the stone gives a very pleasing effect. The lobes of the ears are bored evidently for the purpose of decorating them with pendants."
label: Notes
content: Donor's name, G. L. Febiger, was mistranscribed on catalogue card as G. L. Fabiger.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Dakota Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 009927
label: USNM Number
content: E42669-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe