Indian Pipe. Flat.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Dec 1866
label: Collection Date
content: 1824
name: label: Collector
content: Thomas L. McKenney
label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD [referring to #s E1758 through E1967]: "1758-61 FROM WAR DEPT & NAT. INS. 1762-67 FROM SIOUX. INCLUDED AMONG THESE MAY BE FOLLOWING ITEMS; LISTED IN THE ORIGINAL CATALOG OF JOHN VARDEN'S WASHINGTON MUSEUM, (IN SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES): "JUNE-JULY 1836 INDIAN PIPE STEM (NO. 201 OF CATALOG) FROM OSCAR MISE". "MARCH 1839 2 PIPE STEMS FROM THE OLD STOCK OF GENERAL CLARK OF ST. LOUIS FROM THE ROCKEY MOUNTAINS," OBTAINED FROM HENRY F. FLAG, WHILE VARDEN WAS IN NEW ORLEANS. HOWEVER, THESE OLD VARDEN COLLECTION SPECIMENS MIGHT HAVE BEEN THOSE INCLUDED IN CAT. NOS. 1771-77 (WHICH SEE)."
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "'FROM THE SIOUX' - CAT. BOOK. RED, BROWN, AND WHITE QUILLS; HORSE-HAIR STREAMERS. DECORATION OF HORSE'S HOOF PRINTS ON ONE SIDE OF QUILL WORK. Paper tag [barely legible] afixed to this pipestem by J. [sic, should be T.] L. McKenney: 'This pipe was (...) by White Cloud, an loway Chief (...) Secretary of War on the (4th) August 1824 (...) depation (...) in the (...) Rock (River? or Island? ) (...) TL McK'. Loaned to Political History Div. July 18, 1974"
label: Notes
content: ACCORDING TO JOHN EWERS ("PIPES FOR THE PRESIDENTS", AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE 6(3), 1981, P.65: "A HANDSOME PIPE STEM, RECEIVED BY PRESIDENT [JAMES] MONROE FROM WHITE CLOUD, AN IOWA CHIEF WHO VISITED WASHINGTON IN 1824, IS PRESERVED IN THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION .#1762.."
label: Notes
content: As of 2011, the paper tag/label glued onto the pipe stem is pretty much illegible, even when examined under black light and other types of light sources and magnification at the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute (see attached Imaging Report MCI #6356). The label does seem to have parallel lines around the margin, and this is consistent with certain tags and labels which are with other John Varden artifacts and which appear to be in Varden's hand. For example, see labels with E5469 and E5470.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Missouri River, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iowa (Ioway, Bah Kho-je, Baxoje)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00092
label: USNM Number
content: E1762-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe