Museum number:
| APM 15.054 |
Subcollection:
| ethnographic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| North American pipe |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of steatite with beaker shape bowl, without heel and straight four-sided stem with weighted end. Stem behind the bowl extended with a standing flat plate with angular end containing four perforations for decoration with feathers. Steatite in colours black, pink and quartz with a polished surface. |
Date:
| Period | 1750 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
| General | Length | 8.27 in (21 cm) |
| Bowl | Height | 2.87 in (7.3 cm) |
| Width | 1.14 in (2.9 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | oval shape |
| Material | steatite (stone) |
| Technique | cut |
| Colour | gray black |
| Oher techniques | polished |
| Traces of use | geen |
Production
| Continent | North America |
| Country | United States |
| Region national | North Carolina |
| Ethnicity | Cherokee |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Amsterdam, Dick Meijer, antiquiteiten |
| Brussel, particulier bezit, 1987-1996 |
Comments
| Vgl. American pipes: steatiet (soapstone) pijp met kano-vorm aangeduid als laat pre-historisch-vroeg historisch, (1400-1750). Herkomst Coosa County, Alabama West II, p 752, afb 5. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, 1999-2001, zaal, vitrine 1, 2001-2011. |
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine Amerikaanse Indianenpijpen, v.a. 2011. |
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