Pipe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Nov 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 108 p. 94 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
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=537 , retrieved 12-27-2021; see web page for additional information: Pipe, Inupiaq. Traditional tobacco pipes had flaring, circular bowls, a style that originated in China or Japan. As with tobacco, the earliest pipes arrived through Siberian exchange networks, followed by direct contact with Russian traders. Pipe bowls - made of stone, ivory, copper, brass or lead - were small and held just enough tobacco to smoke in one or a few puffs. This pipe has a cast lead or pewter bowl, leather-wrapped wooden body, rifle-cartridge mouthpiece, and cleaning tool on a beaded strap.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 78A00080
label: USNM Number
content: E32870-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19.2 cm