Record 40/43 |
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Description
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| Round (irregular) wooden stem made from a small branch, bark removed, smoothed and polished although (presumably file) striations are visible; several knots cut off and smoothed; dark brown/black from charring or possibly applied stain. The mouthpiece, 1.7 cm long, is cut from the stem with a down-curved whittling producing a cone with straight cut end. The bowl-end, 1.5 cm long, approximately 1/2 the diameter of the stem, extends from the stem end and is slightly tapered. The pipe-head is black stone (steatite?); T-shaped, oval (nearly square with cut-off corners) cross section and flat bottom; smoothed and polished. The bowl is conical (wider at rim than base) almost completely decorated with an inlaid checkerboard pattern of lead, red pipestone and black stone. The inlay design starts 4 - 5 mm from rim of bowl and continues to top of shank. The 4-5 mm rim edge has an incised encircling line below which is an encircling line of incised "x"s, some of the "x"s have been worn off or never fully executed. The bowl interior has up to 2 mm of accreted black resin. The stem end has an inlaid design of 3 encircling lead bands connected with a longitudinal lead band on each face except for the bottom; the band furthest from the stem-end has 3 inlaid red pipestone triangles outlined in lead bands on each face except the bottom. The shank continues in front of the bowl in a faceted, tapered prow with flat bottom and rounded point. Object Late Date is the year of the Fred McKay loan to the museum, circa 1925. Original catalog card: Locality = Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota. "Beautiful inlay work of lead and catlinite. Evidently this pipe is more recent and modern." |
Pipe, T-shaped
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