Engraved Ivory Pipe, No Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jul 1921
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Sheldon Jackson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Bowl and mouthpiece not included on loan (not original to pipe?)
label: Notes
content: From card: "Engravings represent hunting scenes."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=337 , retrieved 7-31-2018; see web page for additional information: Pipe. "And here's all these different seals - ribbon seals, spotted seal and a bearded seal. A very good artist; he etched the various types of marine mammals that were hunted at Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. And over here are whaling scenes, a boat just about ready to strike a whale, another boat ready to harpoon a walrus." - Branson Tungiyan, 2001 Tobacco pipes carved from walrus tusks and engraved with village and hunting scenes were first made by Inupiaq artists of northwest Alaska, both for local use and as items for sale and trade. The style was adopted on St. Lawrence Island by the early 1900s. Other St. Lawrence Island pipes were made using melted lead that was poured into molds. This St. Lawrence Island Yupik pipe is engraved with scenes of seal, walrus and whale hunting, a sled dog team, reindeer, and other aspects of subsistence life.
label: Notes
content: Smoking pipe features a hunting scene with both single- and double-hatch kayaks engaged in whale hunting.
label: Notes
content: From 2007 Anthropology Conservation Lab treatment report on pipe, by Landis Smith: There is a small ivory pipe bowl and a mouthpiece associated with the pipe, which was removed for exhibit. Evidence pointed strongly to the bowl being a museum addition so it was removed as part of the treatment of this object. Evidence also showed that the mouthpiece does not belong to this ivory stem - it was also removed. The bowl and mouthpiece are being stored at MSC as associated parts.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, St. Lawrence Island
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 066880
label: USNM Number
content: E316794-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm