Walking Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: King Maha Mongkut
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "DESCRIPTION FROM THE ORIGINAL LIST: 'A PIPE OF THE FINEST RAJWANG BAMBOO, BOWL (?) AND BOTTOM IN GOLD ENAMEL.' ALSO SAID TO HAVE WITH IT: 'COILED GOLD ENAMELED TOBACCO BOX' (NOT FOUND IN MUS. CATALOG BOOK). THOUGH ONCE CATALOGED AS AN "OPIUM" PIPE, IT PROBABLY WAS NOT BUT ONLY A TOBACCO PIPE, BY THE FACT THAT IT CAME WITH A "TOBACCO" BOX."
label: Notes
content: (from the card for E3993, which was how E75 was re-cataloged) "WALKING STICK. THIS WALKING STICK WAS LABELED 'SIAMESE PIPE STEM'. A THAI SCHOLAR, TIRACHAI KHAMBU, WORKING WITH PAUL TAYLOR, IDENTIFIED THIS AS A WALKING STICK. (THE BULB USED AS A HANDLE SUPPORT IS MISSING). THE LABEL "PIPE STEM" HAS BEEN REMOVED. 11/5/82. L.MILLER. INVENTORIED 1974."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated and described in McQuail, Lisa. 1997. "Treasures of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of America" Smithsonian Institution. p. 84-85
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Siamese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 266032
label: USNM Number
content: E75-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Staff