Pipe-Bowl Of Catlinite
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Sep 1976
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. George C. Ruhle
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. George C. Ruhle
notes: label: Notes
content: Card: Inverted T-shaped bowl of stone from famed quarry near Pipestone, Minnesota. Broken at bowlshank junction. Geometric carving. Belonged to Yellow Owl, Piegan. Given to Dr. Ruhle in mid-thirties. Note: Catlinite pipe bowls reached the Blackfoot tribe ready-made from the Sioux or Assiniboine to the east as gifts. Probably this example is of Sioux make. -jce [John C. Ewers] This may go with stem, #419106. Collector's slip in accession: Yellow Owl's Pipe Bowl, of Pipestone (Minn). Very excellent workmanship. Given to me by Pikini in mid-thirties.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Piegan (Piikani)
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 323955
label: USNM Number
content: E419101A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe