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Description
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| Red pipestone pipe-head. Conical bowl, large chips off bowl rim. Stem-end has square cross section and a notched crest atop shank. Conical cross section viewed from front of Notched crest atop shank. Four encircling incised lines around stem-end form 4 encircling bands, 2 of those bands (at stem-end and closest to bowl) have diagonal hatching. One long intentional(?) incised line in center of one side of shank. Possibly from the Karow Cemetery/Village, see conflicting provenience data: From the Arthur P. Kannenberg Collection. He recorded the following in his catalog: "Small catlinite medicine man's pipe, found by Mr. Werner on his farm while plowing in 1925. The bowl is smaller than the stem is of Siouxan type. (Received from) Mr. Wm. Werner." Original catalog card written by Kannenberg for L300-49 (4125APK): "Siouan calumet pipe. Locality: Town of Oshkosh, Winnebago County. Found on Herm. Karow farm. Catlinite. I found this pipe on the old Herman Karow farm adjoining the State Hospital for the Insane, in a new plowed field, in 1920. The bowl is fractured front and back. Both holes are stone drilled." Notations on the back of (a Milwaukee Public Museum?) photographic print include: "Siouan calumet pipe. Made of red catlinite. The wing projection extends the whole length of the stem and has five tally makrs cut into its top. It has four incised lines cut around the stem with vertical small lines cuth the opposite way into these 4 lines. Found with a group of pipes on the Walter karrow farm, Town of Oshkosh, Winn. Co. with 2 burials. A. P. Kannenberg Collection." |
Pipe, Elbow
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