Red Stone Pipe & Handle Or Stem
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Col. Paul E. Beckwith
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: IN THE LEDGER AND CARD CATALOG, "MINI WAKAN L." APPEARS AS PART OF THE LOCALE DESIGNATION. THIS IS VERY LIKELY A CORRUPTION OF "MINI WAUKON CHANTE," THE OLD INDIAN NAME FOR THE LAKE, WHICH EARLY SETTLERS HAD MISTAKENLY GLOSSED AS "DEVIL'S LAKE." (CFS/1995). FROM CARD: "TROCADERO JULY 85. MINI WAKAU L. REMOVED FROM EXHIBITS, HALL 21, CASE 86, 11-13-86."
label: Notes
content: Original catalogue calls this a pipe (bowl) and stem. Records note that all or some part of this (the stem??) was exchanged with the Trocadero Museum, July 1885. A pipe bowl with this number remains in the Anthropology collections.
label: Notes
content: See Cat. 92 p. 187 and Pl. XII p. 124 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.288.1-2, a pipe bowl and stem, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E31017 (in particular the pipestem) but which they also credit to Paul Beckwith, however Beckwith was not the collector or donor of E31017. E31017 is also listed in Smithsonian records as having gone to the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkes Barre, PA in 1926. Speculatively, perhaps all or part of the Branly pipe is formerly E23721 in the Beckwith collection?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Devil's Lake (Fort Totten) Agency, Benson County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005272
label: USNM Number
content: E23721-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe