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Object ID 1-22-T1
Object Name Pipe, Platform
Count 1
Description Green steatite. Curved base. Several patterned abrasions on top of platform at smoke hole and base of bowl, appear to post-date pipe manufacture. Numerous abrasions on base of platform. Section of bowl.

Original catalog card includes: "Locality: Town of Utica, Winnebago County." "This pipe was found somewhere in Wisconsin, exact location unkown. It is made from a blue-green steatite. It has a bad fracture on the bowl. There are a number of scratches on the flatform like ferns."

Notations on the back of (a Milwaukee Public Museum?) photographic print include: "Both bowl and stem holes being conical ... Drilled with stone drills."
Material Stone
Date 200 BC-500 AD
Dimensions H-3.4 W-2.7 L-6.6 cm
Collecting location Winnebago County, WI
Culture Middle Woodland
Hopewell
Collector Pickett, James G.
Other # 1-40
Related Publications Oshkosh Public Museum Newsletter, Winter 2006.
George A. West. "Tobacco, Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Indians". Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, Vol 17, June 11, 1934 (Plate 47, Fig. 2).
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