smoking-pipe
- Museum number
- Am1994,02.3
- Description
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Smoking pipe of wood, in the form of an Indian (?) wearing a feathered skirt, surmounted with a flat carved figure of two birds and a circular design. Bowl missing.
- Production date
- 19thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 5 centimetres
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Length: 13.20 centimetres
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Width: 1.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Purchased at Phillips Sale, 8/3/1990, Lot 132. This pipe is similar in style to Haida argillite pipes of the period 1825-1850 carved with European or Euro-Canadian motifs.(JCK,3/1994).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair, but bowl missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by Estelle and Morton Sosland.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1994,02.3