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Pipe Bowl

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Object Number:70-9-341
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Sioux
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Date Made: ca. 1890
Early Date: 1865
Late Date: 1915
Section:American
Materials:Catlinite
Length: 19.3 cm
Width: 9.5 cm
Credit Line:Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970

Description

Catlinite pipe bowl; roughly carved designs on stem. Pipe has been well used; ashes and grit cakes on inside of bowl. The stem end of pipe's base is round. The far end becomes rectangular with designs carved on the sides of the oblong. From about 1890;

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