Ceramic, red-brown, flat bottom, short thick stem. Applique of horned stag on bowl. Applique painted with acrylic - body blue, horns pink, eyes black, tail and muzzle white. Surface (including bowl interior) coated with varnish. Incised on bottom: "S.B. Claw", also white label "No/SC 29.-".
Donor:
Frances J. Fischer, Margot Blum Schevill, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Coconino; Flagstaff
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Maker or artist:
Silas B. Claw
Collector:
Frances J. Fischer, Jan Musial, and Margot Blum Schevill
Collection date:
July 1992
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pipes (smoking equipment)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Context of use:
Effigy pipe" made for the tourist trade.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 4.35 centimeters, length 11.7 centimeters, and diameter 3.08 centimeters
Comment:
Purchased...at cost of $22." References: Written comments; Museum of Northern Arizona, Navajo Pottery, Plateau Series vol. 58 No. 2 (1978), p. 28.