Pipe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Mar 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department of Agriculture
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "IVORY. ETCHED. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN."
label: Notes
content: Etched/engraved ivory pipe. The pipe is Inupiaq. Most of that kind of pictographic engraving was done north of Bering Strait,. It would have been traded south to St.Michael. Lots of the northern Eskimos came there to trade. It shows traditional hunting scenes and elaborate circle-dot decorations whose ancestry goes back 2000 years. Ivory pipes began to be carved in the late 1800s when the whalers and then gold miners created a demand for ivory carving and people began carving the old wood and molded lead Chinese style pipes out of ivory. This one has the Chinese-style stone bowl, indicating the direction that tobacco entered Alaska through the Russian and Chinese trade.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031796
label: USNM Number
content: E176286-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe