Pipe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1841
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WOOD & IVORY INLAID WITH PEARL SHELL. 1/30/67: THE PIPE STEM WAS NOT LOCATED."
label: Notes
content: As of 2008, no obvious scrimshaw incising/engraving was on this pipe.
label: Notes
content: Possibly Haida. Pipe carved from one piece of wood which is inlaid on sides with rectangles of abalone shell. Iron pins support the the frets. Bone fret is on top of the stem and bone pieces are inlaid into the sides of the bowl which is copper alloy (possibly a piece from a musket barrel?) lined with iron. A lead fill is in the stem. An iron hexagonal nut caps the stem. There is an ethnographic deposit inside the bowl, possibly charred material from being smoked. Has original Peale # label.
label: Notes
content: Old inked writing that is hard to deciper is on the pipe: "U.S. Ex. Ex. 2597 [?aget? - this may possibly be Puget, based on what is on other artifacts] Sd, by [R. P.R. ??]". If this is "R. P. R." then that may stand for R. P. Robinson, the Purser's steward on the U.S.S. Vincennes, and may indicate he was the collector?
label: Notes
content: Per Dr. Mary Malloy, style of pipe E2597 resembles one illustrated in a drawing by Louisa Leila Waterhouse Hawkins in the British Museum collections, Registration number Am2006,Drg.123, fig. 2.; Title "Aboriginal Ornament selected from the International Exhibition London 1862 for Henry Christy"; depicting "a pipe partly of wood; the fire cup is of slate mounted on the square stem inlaid with mother of pearl", British Columbia, Canada. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am2006-Drg-123 . E2597 and pipe in drawing may be by the same maker?
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: Indian
label: Culture
content: Haida (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2597-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 8.5 cm