Pipe and box

Museum number:
2-2328a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
2/2328-29 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
(a) Pipe. Bone bowl and shank with red-stained wood bit. Bowl has carved seals, human and walrus heads in relief, is attached with rawhide thongs. Shank has polar bear head with seal in mouth at distal end, zigzag bands, 4 pegged-on kayaks at sides and 3 animals and 1 human pegged on at top. (b) Red-stained wood box with rawhide thong hinges and tie. Red cotton covered "pillow" rest and round rest in box.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Pelly River, Yukon Territory, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Yukon; Pelly River
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
A. J. Basinger and Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
unknown
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:
(a)— length 29.6 centimeters and (b)— length 32.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pipe and box, accession number 2-2328a,b, described as (a) Pipe. Bone bowl and shank with red-stained wood bit. Bowl has carved seals, human and walrus heads in relief, is attached with rawhide thongs. Shank has polar bear head with seal in mouth at distal end, zigzag bands, 4 pegged-on kayaks at sides and 3 animals and 1 human pegged on at top. (b) Red-stained wood box with rawhide thong hinges and tie. Red cotton covered "pillow" rest and round rest in box.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pipe and box, accession number 2-2328a,b, described as (a) Pipe. Bone bowl and shank with red-stained wood bit. Bowl has carved seals, human and walrus heads in relief, is attached with rawhide thongs. Shank has polar bear head with seal in mouth at distal end, zigzag bands, 4 pegged-on kayaks at sides and 3 animals and 1 human pegged on at top. (b) Red-stained wood box with rawhide thong hinges and tie. Red cotton covered "pillow" rest and round rest in box.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pipe and box, accession number 2-2328a,b, described as (a) Pipe. Bone bowl and shank with red-stained wood bit. Bowl has carved seals, human and walrus heads in relief, is attached with rawhide thongs. Shank has polar bear head with seal in mouth at distal end, zigzag bands, 4 pegged-on kayaks at sides and 3 animals and 1 human pegged on at top. (b) Red-stained wood box with rawhide thong hinges and tie. Red cotton covered "pillow" rest and round rest in box.

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