Stone Pipes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: 1783, 712 (WRONG NUMBERS); 11 STONE PIPES; [Formerly ] IN CURATOR DR. JOHN C. EWER'S OFFICE.
label: Notes
content: 7 red stone (catlinite?) pipes, possibly Plains? or Plateau?; 2 are broken. One black stone (argillite?) pipe with a heel, probably based on the form of European or American commercial clay tobacco pipes. Marked with incorrect catalogue # 1783. One black stone (argillite?) pipe with a heel, probably based on the form of European or American commercial clay tobacco pipes. Marked with incorrect catalogue # 712 and "stone pipe." It is possible this pipe was from George Gibbs colln. Accession No. 51? Catalogue Nos. 717 - 721 are listed as pipes from that accession, and 719 - 721 are missing. This pipe appears in a circa 1880s Smithsonian photo, former negative number 1068, current copy negative number 78-7944. Similar pipes to the two black ones are in the collections attributed to the Northwest Coast and the Arctic/Subarctic.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 10
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET13332-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe