Modoc Pipe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Feb 1897
name: label: Donor Name
content: Prof J. W. Meritt
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TRANSFERRED FROM DIVISION OF ARCHEOLOGY JULY 24, 1935. "A STEATITE PIPE, APPARENTLY ... [from] THE MODOC WAR OF 1872-3 BUT NOT MODOC IN TYPE. THE RECORDS SHOW THIS PIPE WAS FOUND IN THE LAVA FORT, SOUTH OF RHETT LAKE, CALIFORNIA WHERE GENERAL CANBY WAS KILLED BY THE MODOC INDIANS. IT WAS GIVEN BY DR. AIKEN, OF JACKSONVILLE [OREGON] TO PROF. J. W. MERITT, CENTRAL POINT, OREGON, JULY 9, 1876 AND BY THE LATTER PRESENTED TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, FEB. 19, 1897."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rhett Lake (a.k.a. Tule Lake), South of / Lava Fort, Siskiyou County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Modoc (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031682
label: USNM Number
content: E173710-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe