Tobacco Pipes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 May 1934
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Marcus Benjamin
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS NO. ORIGINALLY INCLUDED 43 SPECIMENS, MANY OF WHICH ARE PROBABLY IN CULTURAL HISTORY [NMAH]. HEREWITH ARE LISTED ONLY [4 of the 8] THAT SHOWED UP IN ANTH. AT THIS TIME - 8 IN 1972. - R. ELDER. A) CARVED FROM SOAPSTONE, CYLINDRICAL BOW WITH SHORT STEM AT RIGHT ANGLES, ON WHICH IS AN OWL FIGURE. H. 3.4 CM., L. 4.8 CM.. B) CARVED FROM BLACK SOAPSTONE, (PAIR), CYLINDRICAL BOWLS, SHORT RIGHT ANGLE STEM WITH BEAR FIGURES ON THEM. H. 4.1 CM., L. 6 CM.. C) CARVED FROM GREEN SOAPSTONE, CYLINDRICAL BOWL, SHORT RIGHT ANGLE STEM, WITH A LYING FIGURE OF A LIZARD-LIKE ANIMAL. H. 4.3 CM., L. 6.5 CM. E) BLACK POTTERY, CYLINDRICAL BOWL, AND SHORT STEM, ON WHICH IS A FIGURE OF A BIRD. STEM HAS DEEP DIAGONAL GROOVES, AND THE BOWL HAS THE SAME VERTICALLY PLUS GROUPS OF PUNCTUATIONS. C&E LOANED TO PASADENA ART MUSEUM 10-26-1972, RETURNED 3-22-1973." ACCORDING TO WILLIAM "MONTY" BRANHAM, CATAWBA POTTER, THE CERAMIC PIPE IS PROBABLY OF CATAWBA MANUFACTURE. MATERIAL, STYLE & INCISING ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF CATAWBA. ALSO, TWO CATAWBA WOMEN MARRIED INTO THE CHEROKEE NATION. SOME CERAMICS MADE BY ONE OF THEM ARE INCLUDED IN JAMES MOONEY COLLECTION. - F. PICKERING 1997
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
label: Culture
content: Catawba
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 129711
label: USNM Number
content: E368372-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Height - A
content: 3.4 cm
label: Length - A
content: 4.8 cm
label: Height - B
content: 4.1 cm
label: Length - B
content: 6 cm
label: Height - C
content: 4.3 cm
label: Length - C
content: 6.5 cm