Pipe Stem
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: John Varden
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Quill pattern in red, yellow, and black. Fire-damaged (1865)."
label: Notes
content: There was a fire in the Smithsonian building in 1865; person who made this card is presumably alluding to that as the possible source of the damage on this pipestem. Card also notes under collector/donor "Varden?", indicating person who made this card thought pipestem is possibly from John Varden or National Institute collections? An alternate provenance could possibly be the George Catlin collns., Acc. No. 10638? A number of those objects were damaged by fire and water prior to the collection coming to the Smithsonian in 1879 and 1881.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Sep 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains (not certain), United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains Indian (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1129-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 109 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.3 cm