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Object ID 1-23-T1
Object Name Pipe, Platform
Count 1
Description Green steatite. Platform tapers to smoke hole. Most of upper bowl missing.

Original catalog card includes: "Locality: Winnebago County." "Just where it was found is not definitely known."

Originally numbered 1-43; early musseum inventory includes provenience: "Found in a mound at Waukau Creek by Mr. Pickett."

Notations on the back of (a Milwaukee Public Museum?) photographic print include: "... bowl and stem ... both are gouged out and no signs of metal tools are visible." "Found near Picketts, Winnebago County."
Material Stone
Date 200 BC-500 AD
Dimensions H-4.3 W-3.1 L-10.2 cm
Collecting location Mound/Waukau Creek/Wisconsin
Culture Middle Woodland
Hopewell
Collector Pickett, James G.
Other # 1-43
Related Publications 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. 5).
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