Pipe Stem
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Aug 1996
label: Collection Date
content: 1843
name: label: Collector
content: John J. Audubon
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Mary T. Winters
notes: label: Notes
content: FLAT WOODEN PIPE STEM. NO BOWL, BUT DRILLED AND WITH TRACES SHOWING IT ONCE HAD A BOWL AND WAS USED. THE HALF OF THE STEM ENDING WITH THE MOUTHPIECE IS WRAPPED WITH FADED, MULTI-COLORED (RED, BLACK, GREENISH BROWN), NARROW BRAIDED PORCUPINE QUILLS, WITH THE LOOSE END HELD DOWN AT THE MOUTH END OF THE PIPE STEM WITH CRUDELY WRAPPED MORE MODERN COTTON THREAD. THE OTHER END OF THE QUILL WRAPPING HAS SUPERIMPOSED TWO TUFTS OF RED-DYED DEER(?) OR HORSE(?) HAIR BOUND ON WITH COARSE SINEW WRAPPING. THE OTHER HALF, TOWARDS THE BOWL END, IS PAINTED (WITH OIL PAINTS?) WITH FLORAL AND GEOMETRIC PATTERNS (IN FADED RED, BLACK AND GREEN) IN A VERY NON-INDIAN, EUROPEAN STYLE. TYPOLOGICALLY EARLY TO MID 19TH CENTURY, AND FROM THE NORTHERN OR NORTHEASTERN PLAINS. (REMARKS AND CULTURAL IDENTIFICATIONS PROVIDED BY WILLIAM STURTEVANT, CURATOR, NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, OCTOBER, 1995.)
label: Notes
content: John James Audubon notes in his journal entry for June 1, 1843 at Fort Pierre Chouteau, South Dakota that fur trader Honore Picotte (originally from Quebec, Canada) gave him two pipe stems. " Mr. Picotte presented me with two pipe-stems this morning, quite short, but handsome." It is of course only very speculative that this pipe stem could be one of them, particularly as it is 78 cm./some 30 inches long.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Upper Missouri River, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Unspecified
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409936
label: USNM Number
content: E427385-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 78 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5 cm