a) Smoking pipe. Made of wood, cylindrical, with steatite bowl insert. b) Scabbard for a). Stitched hide (fur in place), tubular, with leather thong at open end.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wiyot
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber and Julia Gates
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pipes (smoking equipment)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Ledger describes this as used "apparently for sucking"." 9416-9420 from a doctor's dancing outfit (see 11618).