Catlinite Pipe Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jan 2009
label: Collection Date
content: 1885 to 1888
name: label: Collector
content: John D. Atkins
label: Donor Name
content: State of Tennessee
notes: label: Notes
content: Calumet or inverted T-shaped pipe bowl. Decorated with 3 ribbed rings around the shank, prow, and bowl. Tall cylindrical bowl. Raised circular area at intersection of shank and bowl on both sides of shank. One of these raised circles has a 6-pointed star finely scratched into the surface. Initials J.D.C.A. (for J.D.C. Atkins) scratched into shank. Refer: Ewers, John C. Plains Indian Sculpture. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.
label: Notes
content: Per accession file: the pipe bowl was accompanied by an exhibit label indicating that it came from J.D.C. Atkins (Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1885-1888). The donors said that the information is based on a label displayed with the pipe when it was at the Pinson Museum.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2046944
label: USNM Number
content: E432095-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: 3 cm