Stone Pipe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THE ANTIQUE STONE PIPES (135,169-70-71) WERE OBTAINED FROM THE VICINITY OF THE SAME NUNUYI MOUND. THEY ARE MADE OF THE SAME SOFT BROWN STONE USED IN THE MODERN PIPES, & HAD BEEN USED FOR THE SAME PURPOSE BY THE INDIAN WHO FOUND THEM. ONE IS AN EXACT IMITATION OF THE COMMON PIPE OF THE WHITE MAN. THE OTHERS SEEM TO BE OF ANCIENT INDIAN PATTERNS, ONE OF THEM BEING A MODEL OF A SMALL TUSTI OR JAR. THE PIPES ARE BLACK & POLISHED FROM FREQUENT GREASING." -- JAMES MOONEY NOTES. ... NUNUYI IS THE HOLLAND FIELD MOUND OR YELLOW HILL MOUND NEAR CHEROKEE, N.C. ... PROVENIENCE NOTE: THE HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIANS (BAE BULLETIN 30), PART 2, GIVES THE SPELLING AS "NUNUNYI" (A.K.A. POTATO TOWN).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nununyi, Near, Swain County, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 024012
label: USNM Number
content: E135170-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe