"Blackstone" Pipe-Bowl; Pipe-Stem
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Sep 1976
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. George C. Ruhle
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. George C. Ruhle
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Typical modified-Micmac form of bowl common to the Blackfoot tribes, probably of smoke-blackened grey stone. Wooden stem with 9 incised lines painted red and yellow. Specimen was smoked by Indians and Crown Prince Olaf [sic, should be Olav; later was King Olav V of Norway, 1957 - 1991] and Princess Martha of Norway when visiting Glacier Park [in 1939]. Given by them later to Dr. [George C.] Ruhle. Note: This traditional form of Blackfoot tobacco pipe was still made by several Indian men on both the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana and the Blood Reservation in Alberta during the 1940's. See [John C.] Ewers, Blackfoot Indian Pipes and Pipemaking. Anthrop. Papers, BAE No. 64, Bull. 186, 1963."
label: Notes
content: From note on index card stored with pipe (note misnumbered 419101), written by collector George C. Ruhle: "Bowl (Pikuni) of pipe smoked by Indians with Crown Prince Olaf [sic, should be Olav] and Princess Martha of Norway at Two Medicine [Chalet] in thirties [1939], to celebrate fact that Blackfeet and Norwegians had never made war on each other, had always been at peace. Given to me at closing ceremony by [Jim??] White Child, Bird Rattler and group, for part I played in the ceremony. [signed] Geo C Ruhle, June 10, 1952 Made of Black Igneous rock gathered at Sweet Grass Hills, Mont."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Piegan (Piikani)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 323955
label: USNM Number
content: E419102A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe