Pipe Bowl

70-9-341

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 70-9-341
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Date Made ca. 1890
Section American
Materials Catlinite
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;

Length 19.3 cm
Width 9.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970

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