Carved Pipe Of Wood, Copper Bowl
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1865 to 1867
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Charles S. Bulkley
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
label: Expedition
content: Western Union Telegraph Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "4/18/67: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL. 12/13/67: RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. SEE CAT.#S 1127-31 FOR MORE INFO. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; P. 48, FIG. 271, P. 322. 4/17/67 LOAN DATA: OK. 8 ABALONE INLAYS. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE FIG.317, P.237. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads catalogue caption identifies as: "Pipe inlaid with abalone. Haida. Thunderbird, octopus, men, and monsters adorn this tobacco pipe that has a bowl lined with sheet copper." Possibly part of Accession No. 929?
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "6014. TOBACCO PIPE.-CARVED IN WOOD AND INLAID WITH ABALONE, THE SHELL OF THE HALIOTIS. HAIDA INDIANS (SKITTAGETAN STOCK), QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B. C. COLLECTED BY COLONEL BULKLEY, U. S. A."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=502 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Pipe, i.e. tobacco pipe The carved figures on this Haida pipe include an octopus, a horned animal, and an eagle or thunderbird holding a mask with a human face. No Haida interpretation of this crest imagery was recorded by collector Charles S. Bulkley, who headed the Canadian section of the Western Union Telegraph project during 1865-67. Bulkley acquired the pipe at a village in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E6014-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 21.5 cm