Smoking pipe and stem

Museum number:
2-4863a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
48 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
(a) Bowl with 3 grooves at base of shank and at mid-bowl. (b) Stem wrapped in two places with blue and white beads. Catlinite, wood, glass beads.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Kiowa
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pipes (smoking equipment)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Context of use:
For smoking tobacco.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 8 centimeters and (b)— length 48.3 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Smoking pipe and stem, accession number 2-4863a,b, described as (a) Bowl with 3 grooves at base of shank and at mid-bowl. (b) Stem wrapped in two places with blue and white beads. Catlinite, wood, glass beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Smoking pipe and stem, accession number 2-4863a,b, described as (a) Bowl with 3 grooves at base of shank and at mid-bowl. (b) Stem wrapped in two places with blue and white beads. Catlinite, wood, glass beads.

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