Frog pipe bowl
- Date created
- 200 BC–AD 500 (Middle Woodland period)
- Culture/People
- probably Hopewell (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Collector
- C. L. Obst, Non-Indian
- Previous owner
- C. L. Obst, Non-Indian
- Robert Day, Non-Indian, 1836-1914
- Auction venue
- Gurr, Johns & Co. Ltd.
- Seller
- William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- Collection History
- Collected or excavated at an unknown date by A.B. Morgan (possibly Abram Morgan, ca. 1831-1880, a wagon maker in Pearl, Illinois); acquired at an unknown date by Robert Day (1836-1914, an Irish collector of antiquities); purchased by William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949, who did business as "W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London") at an auction of Robert Day's collection held by Gurr, Johns & Co. Ltd. in Cork, Ireland, in 1915; purchased by MAI from W.O. Oldman in 1916.
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- Place
- Bee Creek, Illinois River; Pike County; Illinois; USA
- See related items
- Hopewell (archaeological culture)
- Pipes and Smoking
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Woodlands
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 4/4851
- Barcode
- 044851.000
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
- Object Name
- Frog pipe bowl
- Media/Materials
- Steatite/soapstone
- Techniques
- Carved, drilled
- Dimensions
- 10 x 2.5 x 5.5 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_48017