Pipe Bowl and Stem
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Dec 1912
name: label: Collector
content: Gen. Frederick D. Grant
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Frederick D. Grant
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "One pipe, pipe stem and case, Sioux Indian. Illus.: Ewers, John C., 'Plains Indian Sculpture' pl. 12, pg. 23. Pipestem identified there as buffalo-turtle-bighorn effigy. Materials identified as ash wood, wrapped porcupine quills, feathers, and ribbon." From second card: "Pipestem. Light, finely polished light brown wood, slightly convex transversely, slightly tapering from slender tubular mouthpiece to slender tubular fitting for bowl, about half of length enveloped in bands of vari-colored split reeds, bound at distal end with strands of sinew, with red-dyed horsehair tassels attached. As accessioned, there was case with stem, but former could not be located in storage at this date: 12/14/1973 JRR."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Teton (Lakota)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 054799
label: USNM Number
content: E275754-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe