Museum number:

APM 20.528

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

monitor pipe

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of stone, so-called platform type with cylindrical bowl with constricted ring standing halfway on a flat stem, the end of the stem rounded into a mouthpiece, the other end the same square shape. Stem surface underside fairly strong scratches of poor polishing.

Date:

Period 1600 - 1800


Dimensions:

GeneralLength3.15 in (8 cm)
BowlHeight1.89 in (4.8 cm)
Width0.87 in (2.2 cm)
StemLength1.57 in (4 cm)
Other dimensions diameter steelboring: 0,7 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape oval shape
Materialclaystone (stone)
Techniquecut
Colourblack gray
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentNorth America
CountryUnited States
Region nationalOhio
EthnicityHopewell
Acquisition
Year 2011
Provenance Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1967-2011, nr AA201 (oud nr 2.6)
Burlington, Wisconsin, collectie E.K. Petrie, -1967
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Niemeyer Nederlands Tabacologisch Museum, vitrine 1, 1967-1974.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine Amerikaanse Indianenpijpen, v.a. 2011.

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