Ceramic Pipe Bowl, Four Stems
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Clay vessel with 4 pointed feet and four protrusions. Printed label found with object: Handmade by __Laughing Water__ [handwritten] Pamunkey Indian Reservation, King William, Virginia. Back of label handwritten note in Sturtevant's hand, = Dora Bradby, C[hristian] Feest, 10 May 1981.
label: Notes
content: This appears to be what is sometimes referred to as a "peace pipe" or "friendship pipe" pipe bowl, in the form of a globular ceramic vessel with 4 protruding stem tubes. It has a "D" incised on bottom of bowl. See p. 83 and 89 in Feest, Christian F. Indians of North America: The Powhatan Tribes. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1990. See also Fewkes, Vladimir J. "Catawba Pottery-Making, with Notes on Pamunkey Pottery-Making, Cherokee Pottery-Making, and Coiling." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 88, no. 2 (1944): 69–124. http://www.jstor.org/stable/985665 , see in particular pp. 77-78, and 81-82, Figs. 7a and 11a. See also E165457, E167521, E167522, and National Museum of the American Indian Catalog # 11/8128.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Pamunkey Reservation / King William County, Virginia, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pamunkey
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437812-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe