Pipe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Dec 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Charles Rau
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Charles Rau
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OF BLACK CLAY. POLISHED CLAY BOWLS. TWO WITH DECORATED WOODEN STEMS."
label: Notes
content: Original list in accession file identifies 178896 as 3 pipes, two with stems, "from Veragua, New Granada. The tobacco is introduced like a cigar. The repaired specimen and stem presented by Mr. Thomas Ewbank. All obtained from Dr. J. [Joseph] King Merritt [1824 - 1882]." Thomas Ewbank may refer to: Thomas Ewbank (1792–1870) was born in England but immigrated in 1819 to New York, where he worked first as a machinist and later as a manufacturer of metallic tubing. From 1849 until 1852 he was U.S. Commissioner of Patents. He visited Brazil in 1845 and 1846 and wrote a lengthy description of the geography, customs, and peoples of the country.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Colombia / Panama (not certain), South America / Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019931
label: USNM Number
content: E178896-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe