Record 7/204 |
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Description
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| Stem only. Made from one piece of wood. From mouthpiece: cut spiral approximately two thirds of stem; cut away section with 3 cylinders (center cylinder is smoke tube) wrapped with cloth stitched longitudinally to hold in place; narrow (1.8 cm to 2 cm long, 6.9 cm wide) broad flat band. Very weathered, no evidence of other decoration. Mouthpiece (extends from center of one end of stem) is a slightly tapered and flattened cylinder 2.2 cm long and several millimeters shorter than height of stem (2 cm.) The bowl-end of stem is cut straight with a smoke hole only, the bowl-end may have extended beyond the end of the stem and have broken off and the end possibly smoothed over. From the Arthur P. Kannenberg collection. He recorded the following in his catalog: "A wooden spiral pipe stem such as were used in very olden times by the old timers on their ceremonial pipes. This one was found in an abandoned log cabin (presumably on the Menominee Indian Reservation) by Reginald Oshkosh with a lot of other old things left there by the relative of the deceased head of the family. This is yet the custom to abandon everything." Received from Reginald Oshkosh. Object late date is the year Kannenberg died. |
Pipe, Calumet
-The Oshkosh Public Museum Pipe Collection
-Copyright Oshkosh Public Museum
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