Tobacco pipe bowl

Made:
1860-1890 in United States, Great Plains and Canada
maker:
Sioux people
Catlinite tobacco pipe bowl

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Catlinite tobacco pipe bowl
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Catlinite tobacco pipe bowl, small cylindrical bowl set on horizontal stem socket with fin-like projection at end, front of bowl has characteristic "rudder" protuberance, Sioux( ?), Plains, North America or Canada, 1860-1890

Details

Category:
Smoking
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A653341
Materials:
incomplete and catlinite
Measurements:
overall: 40 mm x 85 mm
bowl: 16 mm,
type:
tobacco pipe