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Object ID 2592-151
Object Name Pipe, Elbow
Count 1
Description Purple steatite pipe-head. Conical bowl with six encircling incised lines around bowl exterior; fine incised lines on most of bowl lip, sections of fine vertical hatch lines (original?) below lowest encircling line; stem broken away just after elbow. Restoration includes fabricated stem; bowl cracks and losses filled in with light purple material.

Original catalog card: "Restored Calumet made into an Elbow Pipe. Locality: Heafford Jc. Lincoln County, Wis. Received from Carl Wittman Collection. Date: Feb 22, 1941. The bowl is made from purple steatite. This pipe was a fine steatite specimen before it was reconstructed. From all indications this piece was reconstructed from two different fragments."
Material Stone
Dimensions H-6.6 W-3.5 L-3.9 cm
Dimension notes Above length and width are of bowl only.
Collecting location Heafford Junction, WI/Lincoln County, WI
Collector Wittman, Carl
Other # 17
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