Pipestone pipe bowl and wood stem

Titles: Pipestone pipe bowl and wood stem (Supplied title)

Description: A tomahawk style, pipestone bowl (A) with mottling and cylindrical burned wood stem (B), possibly Dakota, circa the mid- to late 19th century.

Dates

• Approximately 1860 - Approximately 1901 (Date range based on time Bishop Whipple spent in Minnesota working for various government commissions for Indian Affairs) (Creation)

Creation

• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1566.A,B

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 3 1/4 inches height (1566.A, bowl, overall height)
• 6 1/8 inches length (1566.A, bowl)
• 1 inch width (1566.A, bowl)
• 9 1/4 inches length (1566.B, stem)
• 1 1/2 inches circumference (1566.B, stem)

Subjects

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