Earthen Pipe "Kanu Nawu"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Apr 1889
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CALLED CHICKEN COMB. 'PIPE (KANU NAWU): ... HAS AN ORNAMENT, DESCRIBED BY THE MAKER AS A 'CHICKEN COMB", PROJECTING BELOW THE BOWL. THEY ARE HIGHLY POLISHED & ORNAMENTED WITH VARIOUS LINE PATTERNS STAMPED IN SOFT CLAY WITH A BENT PIN. THEY ARE COLORED BLACK INSIDE AND OUT BY BURNING UNDER OAK BARK, OVER WHICH A LARGE VESSEL IS INVERTED TO CONFINE THE SMOKE, WHICH IS THUS MADE TO PERMEATE THE PORES OF THE CLAY. ONLY THE FINER (BROWN) CLAY IS USED IN MAKING PIPES." - JAMES MOONEY NOTES."
label: Notes
content: WILLIAM "MONTY" BRANHAM, CATAWBA POTTER, IDENTIFIES THIS AS AN ELBOW PIPE, NOT A CHICKEN COMB PIPE (SEE CAT. #E330626 FOR EXAMPLES OF CHICKEN COMB PIPES, ETC.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Eastern Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Catawba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 021819
label: USNM Number
content: E132988-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe