Record 41/204 Catalog Record OPM Pipe Collection Exhibit Page Home Search Image 3 of 8 Description  Round brown-red with overall light speckling pipestone stem slightly tapered to attached wooden mouthpiece. Raised decoration, from mouthpiece: 2 cm wide faceted band; 3.7 cm wide band of flanges, grooves and rings; 2 cm wide facet band; 8 mm wide faceted band. Although smoothed and polished, the stem has regular, closely spaced encircling striations overall suggesting lathe turning. Spatulate wooden mouthpiece2.7 cm long (viewable) inserted into end of stem, interior section 3.1 cm long tapered cylinder, wrapped with purple cloth. Both ends of the mouthpiece have dark resinous stains. Bowl-end is straight cut with central hole. Pipe-head is red pipestone, different from stem, with one area of light color and some even lighter and some darker inclusions; elbow shaped with round cross section and flat bottom; smoothed and polished. The bowl is slightly conical with dark resinous stains on rim and interior; gray ash also in interior. The shank continues in front of the bowl as a faceted prow with flat bottom, flat top and irregular diamond cross section. The stem-end is cut straight and has a non-functioning tapered wooden dowel (does not have a smoke hole) inserted presumably to hold the pipe-head to the stem for display. Very possible that the stem is not original to the pipe-head because of the differing pipestone as well as the far greater number of overall fine scratches on the pipe-head compared to the relative few on the stem. Object Late Date is the year of the Fred McKay loan to the museum, circa 1925. Original catalog card: Locality = Menominee Indian Reservation. "This is without doubt a Sioux Indian pipe made in Dakota. A Menominee Indian by the name of Noquet Wabanaskum had it and sold it to Fred McKay for $10.00. It is a very fine piece and looks as though it had been turned out on a lathe, it is so perfect in detail."

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