smoking-pipe
- Museum number
- Am,Db.2
- Description
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Smoking pipe bowl, of a fine grained grey stone, polished to black, the bowl in clay pipe form of elbow pipe, with a pewter or lead ring inlaid near entrance for stem, the bowl surmounted with a large mammal, four paws on the bowl, head rising above the bowl looking at the smoker, long horizontal tail lying flat along bowl, the animal perhaps a wolf (dog ?).
- Production date
- 1600-1800
- Dimensions
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Length: 14 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Mohawk attribution suggested by Roland Vlau, Universite de Montreal, August 1995, the wolf clan being one of three. The Glenbow Museum `Spirits Sings' Catalogue suggests [p.45] eroneously that it is made of wood, and gives a designation: `Iroquois type, 17th or 18th century type.' [Additional description etc. JCK 11/9/1995] see Rayna Green (ed) `The British Museum Encyclopaedia of Native North America' British Museum Press, 1999; see JCH King `First Peoples, First Contacts' British Museum Press 1999; see JCH King `Thunderbird and Lightning' BMP Ltd 1982; see J W Bradley 'Before Albany' [Albany, 2007], p 78 for a stone pipe fragment of this type, and for a 1644 engraving of a Mohawk man holding a similar pipe; and p 127 for a 17th century wood pipe fragment of this type;
- Location
- On display (G26/dc2)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977 15 Dec-1978 30 Oct, Museum of Mankind, Room 9; Smoking Pipes of the North American Indian
1982-1987 Jun-Jan, Museum of Mankind, Thunderbird and Lightning: Indian Life in North America, 1600-1900
1988 15 Jan-1 May, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1988 1 Jul-1 Nov, Museum of Civilization, Lorne Building, Ottawa, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1999 25 Jun-Present, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Northeastern Woodlands"
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,Db.2
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1882B12.2 (old CDMS no.)
