Pipe bowl and pipestem
- Date created
- circa 1790
- Culture/People
- Mohawk
- Artist/Maker
- silver band by Hester Bateman, Non-Indian, 1709-1794
- Previous owner
- Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea), Mohawk, ca. 1742-1807
- Dr. Caleb Benton, Non-Indian, 1758-1825
- Evalina Benton Collier (Evalina DuBois Benton/Mrs. Frederick J. Collier), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- Previous seller
- Evalina Benton Collier (Evalina DuBois Benton/Mrs. Frederick J. Collier), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- Presenter/funding source
- Joseph Keppler, Jr. (Udo J. Keppler/Gyantwaka), Non-Indian, 1872-1956
- Collection History
- Formerly owned by Mohawk leader Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea, ca. 1742-1807); presented to his friend Dr. Caleb Benton (1758-1825), a physician in Catskill, New York, at an unknown date; passed down through the Benton family and inherited by Caleb Benton's great granddaughter, Mrs. Evalina Benton Collier (Mrs. Frederick J. Collier, 1879-1949); purchased from Mrs. Collier by MAI in 1934 using funds donated by Joseph Keppler, Jr. (1872-1956, a long-time friend of George Heye).
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- Place
- New York; USA
- See related items
- Mohawk
- Pipes and Smoking
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Woodlands
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 18/6071
- Barcode
- 186071.000
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
- Object Name
- Pipe bowl and pipestem
- Media/Materials
- Wood, porcupine quills, dye/dyes, slate, silver, metal chain
- Techniques
- Carved, incised, dyed, quill plaiting/woven quillwork
- Dimensions
- 79 x 7 x 6 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_198969