Pipe, effigy, double wood duck and owl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Jun 1901
name: label: Donor Name
content: J. M. Hodge
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "... Illus.: Brose, David S. 1985. Ancient Art of the American Woodland Indians; Pl. 62, p. 79. Identified there as Bird-and-Owl-Effigy Great Pipe; steatite, h. 15.4 cm., l. 25.5 cm., Copena culture, Middle Woodland period, A.D. 100 - 600." Illus. Fig. 120, p. 125 in Krech, Shepard. 2009. Spirits of the air: birds & American Indians in the South. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Identified there as carved to depict a wood duck or other duck and an eared owl. Illustrated in "Sun Circles and Human hands", plate 104.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Scott County, Virginia, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 038169
label: USNM Number
content: A211243-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe