Pipestone pipe bowl and wood stem

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

Description: A tomahawk style, pipestone pipe bowl (A) in spontoon form, decorated on both sides with leaf design, and cylindrical burned wood pipestem (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: 1556.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

• 2 5/16 inches height (1556.A, bowl)
• 5 1/4 inches length (1556.A, bowl)
• 3/4 inches width (1556.A, bowl, greatest width)
• 13 inches length (1556.B, stem)
• 1 3/4 inches circumference (1556.B, stem)

Subjects

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