Smoking pipe and scabbard

Museum number:
1-63990a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210163990a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.815
Description:
Pipestem is yew wood with soapstone bowl, inlaid with haliotis (abalone), blue paint.
Donor:
Gertrude Josephine Hampel and John Stoer Hampel
Collection place:
Requa, Klamath (CDP), Del Norte County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Del Norte; Requa
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Gertrude Josephine Hampel and John Stoer Hampel
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Abalone shell, Soapstone (metamorphic rock), and Yew (wood)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pipes (smoking equipment)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1942
Context of use:
For smoking native tobacco.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 2.1 centimeters and length 11 centimeters
Comment:
Not a scabbard, edged weapon/armament
Loans:
S1987-1988 #36: Mills College (March 11, 1988–May 23, 1988) and S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Smoking pipe and scabbard, accession number 1-63990a,b, described as Pipestem is yew wood with soapstone bowl, inlaid with haliotis (abalone), blue paint.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Smoking pipe and scabbard, accession number 1-63990a,b, described as Pipestem is yew wood with soapstone bowl, inlaid with haliotis (abalone), blue paint.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Smoking pipe and scabbard, accession number 1-63990a,b, described as Pipestem is yew wood with soapstone bowl, inlaid with haliotis (abalone), blue paint.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Smoking pipe and scabbard, accession number 1-63990a,b, described as Pipestem is yew wood with soapstone bowl, inlaid with haliotis (abalone), blue paint.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Smoking pipe and scabbard, accession number 1-63990a,b, described as Pipestem is yew wood with soapstone bowl, inlaid with haliotis (abalone), blue paint.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Smoking pipe and scabbard, accession number 1-63990a,b, described as Pipestem is yew wood with soapstone bowl, inlaid with haliotis (abalone), blue paint.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Smoking pipe and scabbard, accession number 1-63990a,b, described as Pipestem is yew wood with soapstone bowl, inlaid with haliotis (abalone), blue paint.

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