Pipe With Scalp Locks
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
label: Collection Date
content: 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "...THE PIPE STEM HAS THE CARVED FIGURE OF A MAN AT THE UPPER END AND HAS A BUNCH OF EAGLE FEATHERS AND LOCKS OF HAIR WRAPPED IN QUILLS ATTACHED BY THONGS AROUND THE WAIST OF THE FIGURE. L. 59 CM. ILLUS.: EWERS, JOHN C. PLAINS INDIAN SCULPTURE; PL. 13, PG. 24." Pipe bowl was not located during 1970's inventory.
label: Notes
content: There is a letter from the donor in the accession file with the history of this item. It is on War Department stationery, dated March 21, 1874, and reads: "...It belonged to Tall Bull, Chief of the Dog Soldiers .... He was killed by Lieut. Mason and Sergeant McGrath [Daniel McGrath], 5th U.S. Cavalry, in a fight at Summit Springs, Colorado... Tall Bull's wife, there captured, identified the pipe, and said that the scalp locks with which it is decorated, came from the heads of whites killed at the massacre on the Salinas [sic, may mean the Saline, i.e. the Saline River?], Kansas, two weeks before justice overtook the band."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Dec 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Summit Springs, Colorado, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai), Southern, Masikota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003208
label: USNM Number
content: E13477-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 59 cm