The Collectors
Pipe, Platform
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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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