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Description
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| Broad, flat stem made from one piece of wood, slight diamond cross section. Surface is decorated with over-all ramdonly placed rasp/file burns and a dark brown stain. Stem width varies from 3.4 cm at mouthpiece to 4.1 cm at bowl-end. Bowl-end is straight cut with both corners cut off at right angles and has a protruding cylinder (approximately 1 cm in diameter) that is nearly the same height as the stem. The end with the mouthpiece has cut-off corners, the cuts continue in a slight curve that straighten out and extend 2 cm forming a spatulate mouthpiece nearly the same height as the stem. The dark red pipestone pipe-head is T-shaped, smoothed and polished, with a slightly conical bowl. The round shank has 4 carved encircling grooves approximately 0.3 cm apart at the stem-end, the rest of the shank has 8 longitudinal facets extending to the base of the bowl and one groove along the bottom. The shank continues in front of the bowl as a tapered prow. The bowl is capped with a band of lead (1.2 cm wide) that is connected by 4 equidistant inlaid joints to an inlaid band 0.5 cm wide. Object Late Date is the year of the Fred McKay loan to the museum, circa 1925. Original catalog card (presumably written by Arthur P. Kannenberg at an unknown date) includes locality as Menominee Indian Reservation and "This is the longest pipe which we have in the museum. It belonged to an old chief, Pe-wa-konay, who died a number of years ago, after whom I was named. He was a great old man, beloved and respected not only by his people but also by the whites who knew him. McKay secured this pipe after many visits from his daughter for $10.00". |
Pipe, Calumet
-The Oshkosh Public Museum Pipe Collection
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