Ornamented Pipe Stem
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of War
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LOCATED ONLY A WOODEN STEM WRAPPED WITH QUILLS AND RIBBONS; TAG WAS CORRECTED FROM #2715 TO "2115. LHC 8/77."
label: Notes
content: Listed in original catalog ledger as Chippaway [sic], Lake Superior, Chief Mozobodo, received from the War Department. The ledger lists both pipe stem and bowl under this number. As of 2007 only a stem could be located. A pipe bowl also attributed to Chief Mozobodo was cataloged as 2343 (no longer in the collection).
label: Notes
content: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft references a man named Mozobodo (d. 1832), a son of Keeshkemun/Giishkiman, who was a chief of the Chippewa of Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, in his publications, particularly in the publication Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. 1834. Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the actual source of this river; embracing an exploratory trip through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) Rivers, in 1832, under the direction of Henry R. Schoolcraft. New-York: Published by Harper & Brothers. Schoolcraft also notes, on p. 378 of Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. 1851. Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers: with brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions, A.D. 1812 to A.D. 1842. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., that he gave a silver medal and U.S. flag to Mozobodo. Mozobodo is also listed as a signer of the 1827 Treaty of Butte des Morts, "between Lewis Cass and Thomas L. McKenney, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Chippeway, Menomonie, and Winnebago tribes of Indians." Thomas McKenney, who assembled the War Dept. collection, is thus a possible collector of this pipe, as is also Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Sep 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2115-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe