smoking-pipe
- Museum number
- Am,De.15
- Description
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Smoking pipe (shark-shaped) made of stone, argillite.
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.50 centimetres
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Width: 8 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Bibliography for Haida Argillite Carvings all from the Centre for Anthropology library, British Museum. This is illustrated in R K Wright: 'Haida Argillite Pipes', MA thesis, U Washington 1977, Plate 1 p 61 (JCK 24 9 10).
Indian Art in pipestone; George Catlin’s portfolio in the British Museum
George Catlin 1796-1872
KUB [Cat-] M13875,
19thc Haida argillite pipe carvers; stylistic attributions
Robin Kathleen Wright
KUB [WRI-] V.1, M13198
KUB [WRI-] V.2, M45832
Northern Haida master carvers
Robin Kathleen Wright
KUB [WRI-], M40051
Haida Carvers in argillite
Charles Marius Barbeau
H6/KUB[CAN-], L21172
Guide to the Loan Collections of objects connected with the use of tobacco and other narcotics
William Bragge [1880]
pKGU [EDI-] , M24759
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Very similar to De16, save De16 is in wood.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1998 1 Mar-24 May, BM Room 35, BP Ethnography Showcase: The Return of the Museum of Mankind
1996 Feb-1998 Feb, Museum of Mankind, Treasures of the Collections
1980 Feb-1983 Aug, Museum of Mankind, Room 9; Art Made for Strangers: Haida Argillite Carving
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,De.15
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1882B14.15 (old CDMS no.)
