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Description
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| Round wooden stem made from one piece of wood, probably a branch with bark peeled; smoothed and polished. Both the mouthpiece and the bowl-end are cylinders extending from either ends of the stem; uncertain which end is the mouthpiece and which end is the bowl-end. One cylinder (mouthpiece?) is 2.5 cm long, slightly tapered, 1 cm 1.1 cm narrower than the stem; both the cylinder and stem ends are cut straight; no accretions or charring are visible. The other cylinder (bowl-end?) is 3.8 cm long, slightly tapered, and 1.1 cm narrower than the stem; the stem end is cut straight; the cylinder end is irregular, has beveling cuts on the edges and is charred, the end and the interior has accreted black resin. The pipe-head is made from a tan-gold stone (identified as petrified wood by original cataloger, Arthur P. Kannenberg?); elbow shaped with a round cross section and cylindrical bowl. The top 1.5 cm of the bowl exterior is decorated with inlaid lead, 2 bands at either end and 8 encircling cut-outs in between. The top of the bowl rim is 2.5 cm wide and 2.8 cm long. The bowl rim and the bowl interior have accreted black resin, rim interior accretion is 1 mm thick. The last 2.5 cm of the stem-end is decorated in the same manner; 2 of the stone cut-outs are chipped with some losses; part of the lead inlay is lost or never completed. The shank has the bottom cut flat and continues in front of the bowl, tapers then expands to a flattened button knob. Object Late Date is the year of the Fred McKay loan to the museum, circa 1925. Original catalog card: Locality = Sioux Reservation, North Dakota. "The pipe is a perfect, beautiful specimen but is foreign to Wisconsin. It was probably sold or traded to a Wisconsin Indian." |
Pipe, T-shaped
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