Pipe bowl with human figure
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- probably Plaquemine (archaeological culture) (attributed); probably used by Central/Middle Mississippian people
- Previous owner
- George A. Flournoy (George Alexander Flournoy), Non-Indian, 1868-1928
- Anita Patterson Flournoy (Mrs. George A. Flournoy), Non-Indian, 1878-1952
- Carnegie Public Library, 1904-1964
- Seller
- Carnegie Public Library, 1904-1964
- Presenter/funding source
- Marion Eppley Memorial Fund
- Object Name
- Pipe bowl with human figure
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Carved, ground, drilled
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
- Place
- Reelfoot Lake area; Fulton County; Kentucky; USA
- Date created
- AD 1100–1350 (Early to Middle Mississippian period)
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of George A. Flournoy (1868-1928, a collector in Paducah, Kentucky); inherited by his widow, Anita Patterson Flournoy (1878-1952); donated to the Carnegie Public Library in Paducah, Kentucky, by Mrs. Flournoy in 1947; purchased by MAI from the Carnegie Public Library in 1962 using funds from the Marion Eppley Memorial Fund.
- Catalog Number
- 23/1000
- Barcode
- 231000.000
- See related items
- Plaquemine (archaeological culture)
- Central/Middle Mississippian (archaeological culture)
- Pipes and Smoking
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
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