(a) Catlinite pipe bowl with lead inlay in encircling bands and series of 'V's; broken and repaired. (b) Stem: flat carved wood decorated with dyed porcupine quillwork and grey horsehair tassel (at distal end); quillwork has yellow ground with red and blue-green geometrical decorations.
Donor:
Wilma Lloyd
Collection place:
Southern Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Southern Plains
Culture or time period:
Southern Plains tribes
Collector:
Selden Wiley Jones
Collection date:
1860-1869
Materials:
Catlinite
Taxon:
Erethizon dorsatum
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pipes (smoking equipment)
Accession date:
June 1, 1975
Context of use:
Tobacco pipe.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 17.5 centimeters and (b)— length 82 centimeters