Carved Pipe, Imitation Of Steamer
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1841
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: Has original Peale # label. 7-21-2005 Jay Stewart and Peter Macnair note about this panel pipe or ship pipe that "This is the most significant panel pipe of its type; there are about three dozen wooden panel pipes in public collections worldwide. This example shows gear relating to the rendering of whale oil, indicating that the Haida maker was aboard a whaling ship."
label: Notes
content: Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition.
label: Notes
content: Object on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Objects of Wonder", 2018.
label: Notes
content: Dr. Mary Malloy doubts the identification of this ship pipe as related to whaling, because no American whaleships were along the coast of British Columbia until after all the Wilkes/Exploring Expedition pipes were in D.C.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2598-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 36.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 11.3 cm