Pipe bowl and pipestem
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Catawba
- Previous owner
- Chief Samuel T. Blue (Samuel Taylor Blue), Catawba, ca. 1871-1959
- Collector
- Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
- Seller
- Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
- Object Name
- Pipe bowl and pipestem
- Media/Materials
- Pottery, wood, blue jay feather/feathers
- Techniques
- Incised
- Dimensions
- 57 x 3.5 x 5 cm
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
- Place
- South Carolina; USA
- Collection History
- Formerly owned by Chief Samuel T. Blue (Catawba, ca. 1871-1959); collected by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1950), probably in 1936 or 1937; purchased by MAI from Frank Speck in 1937.
- Catalog Number
- 19/7094
- Barcode
- 197094.000
- See related items
- Catawba
- Pipes and Smoking
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement