Stone Pipe, Carved
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 May 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Ezekiel Jewett
label: Donor Name
content: Col. Ezekiel Jewett
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS PIPE IS NOT TYPICAL OF CALIFORNIA. IT IS NOT AS COMPLEX IN DESIGN AS TYPICAL NW COAST SLATE PIPES, BUT DOES DISPLAY ART TRAITS CHARACTERISTIC OF THAT REGION. IN 1841 LT. [Charles] WILKES [of the U.S. Exploring Expedition] WAS IN THE VICINITY OF THE AMERICAN RIVER AND MAY HAVE BEEN THE STIMULUS FOR THIS SPECIMEN. SHORTLY BEFORE HIS ARRIVAL IN CALIFORNIA HE HAD COLLECTED CARVED SLATE WORK FROM THE NW COAST. 1/9/67 GP [I.e., George Phebus speculates in 1967 that seeing Northwest Coast pipes collected by the Wilkes U.S. Exploring Expedition may perhaps have inspired California carvers to make a similar style of pipe]. ILLUS. [under incorrect number 6201, in] N.M. REPT. 1897, PART 1, FIG. 186, P. 584. REFER TO CAT. NO.61,925, WASH, OREGON FOR ? RELATED ITEM. 3/16/72 IT APPEARS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT THIS PIPE WAS MADE BY ANY CALIF. TRIBE IT IS TOO CLOSELY IN THE STYLE OF THE NORTHWEST COAST.-R. ELDER."
label: Notes
content: Note: Colonel Ezekiel Jewett went to California during the California Gold Rush of 1849, so it may be speculated that he acquired this pipe then. He also made an additional trip to California in 1866.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American River, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maidu (?)
label: Culture
content: Miwok (Me-Wuk) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001237
label: USNM Number
content: E6202-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe