Record 10/43 |
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Description
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| Stem made from one piece of wood; from mouthpiece: zig-zag cuts producing 6 truncated cones (lined up broad end to broad end and tapered end to tapered end; the surface has a pine-cone like appearance as the cut is against the wood grain and the slightly raised grain edges were rubbed with dark green paint); narrow (2.8 cm to 3.2 cm long) round band with one convex edge painted dark green and other end straight cut (appears to have once been convex and painted/stained dark brown but most of that has been cut away possibly since original use); long (33.3 cm to 33.4 cm long) square section before bowl-end. The entire stem has a light brown stain. The mouthpiece is a broad spatulate (4 cm long), the stain worn away on the last 1.7 cm. The bowl-end is a slight tapered cylinder extending from center of the stem end; dark resinous stains at tip. When the stem is positioned as if smoking, the square shaft of the stem is at an angle, producing a diamond cross section. The pipe-head is a dark red pipestone with some light red speckling especially on one side; T-shaped with circular cross-section and flat bottom; smoothed and polished. The bowl is slightly conical. The shank in front of the bowl is faceted and forms a diamond cross-section prow with flat top and bottom. Decorations are inset encircling bands of thin brass wire wrapping near the stem-end, prow end and bowl rim. The wire wrap is finished with a twisted wire folded over the wrapping, solder is visible at the prow and stem end. Original catalog card: "This pipe was bought from an old Indian on the (Menominee Indian) Reservation." |
Pipe, Calumet
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