Record 5/41 Catalog Record Archaeological Sites Exhibit Page Home Search Image 2 of 6 Description  Purple steatite. Presumably round bowl atop a rectangular base with a triangular cross section. Bowl lip and bowl base defined by raised bands. Both sides of bowl spawled off. Grooved and drilled design on the base. Base perforated through both sides near stem-end. From the Arthur P. Kannenberg collection. He recorded the following in his catalog: "Mic-mac platform pipe. It was found in the ashes of a prehistoric fire place on the Kiel farm, on the south shore of Lake Butte des Morts only a few miles west of Oshkosh. I secured this pipe from Herman Hollub." Original catalog card written by Kannenberg for L300-65 (5081APK): "Terraced-base Micmac pipe. Locality: Kiel Sand Pit, Town of Algoma, Winnebago County. Received from Herman Hollub. Purple steatite. While hauling sand and gravel out of the Kiel gravel pit on the south shore of Lake Butte des Morts in the Town of Algoma, about 1.5 miles west of Oshkosh, several skeletons were disturbed, this pipe was with one of them. Both sides of the bowl were chipped off when a white man tried to smoke it evidently caused by the heat of the burning tobacco."

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