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Object ID 800-87
Object Name Pipe
Count 1
Description Red pipestone. Rectangular bowl with square cross section, corners beveled, dark resinous stains in interior and on lip; stem hole near base on one face, other faces have incised designs: triangle with or without cross hatching and rectangle with cross hatching. Also, inscribed"Wis / Marquette", "Willie Englis" and "W. I.".

Original catalog card: "Square-bowled Pipe. Locality: Marquette County. Received from S. D. Mitchell Collection. Catlinite. An inch square; and is ornamented with many parallel lines and triangular figures, evidently made with metal tools. This pipe was found by a farmer lard by the name of Willie Inglis."

Material Stone
Dimensions H-5.3 W-2.3 L-2.3 cm
Collecting location Marquette County, WI
Collector Mitchell, Stephen D.
Other # Mitchell 38
Related Publications George A. West. "The Aboriginal Pipes of Wisconsin". Wisconsin Archeologist, Vol 4, Nos. 3 and 4, April-August 1905 (Fig. 164).
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