Pipe

Museum number:
2-160
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Walrus tusk with engraved and darkened drawings; parallel zigzag bands on the base; 5 seals drawn on one side, hunting and domestic scenes on the opposite side; bowl has flaring mouth.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Taxon:
Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pipes (smoking equipment)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Tobacco pipe.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 34 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pipe, accession number 2-160, described as Walrus tusk with engraved and darkened drawings; parallel zigzag bands on the base; 5 seals drawn on one side, hunting and domestic scenes on the opposite side; bowl has flaring mouth.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pipe, accession number 2-160, described as Walrus tusk with engraved and darkened drawings; parallel zigzag bands on the base; 5 seals drawn on one side, hunting and domestic scenes on the opposite side; bowl has flaring mouth.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pipe, accession number 2-160, described as Walrus tusk with engraved and darkened drawings; parallel zigzag bands on the base; 5 seals drawn on one side, hunting and domestic scenes on the opposite side; bowl has flaring mouth.

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