Museum number:

APM 22.759

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

sitting eagle

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of stone with a figural bowl, the stem drilled in the back. Bowl shaped like a sitting eagle in a stylized version with large almond-shaped eyes, crooked beak, stylized wings running along the back on either side of the body, the legs clenched and with a short tail. Leg in red ink old museum number "43.4196".

Date:

Period 1810 - 1830


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight3.54 in (9 cm)
Width2.64 in (6.7 cm)
Length2.72 in (6.9 cm)
BowlHeight2.2 in (5.6 cm)
Width2.64 in (6.7 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialstone
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown black
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentNorth America
CountryUnited States
Region nationalAlaska
EthnicityTlingit
Acquisition
Year 2017
Comments
Vegelijkbare stukken melden Raven pipe, stam Tlingit - Chilkat Qwan.
Literature
Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. hoofdstuk: Raven pipe van de Canadese westkust. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, tentoonstelling "Aanwinsten 2017", 2 februari - 6 mei 2018.

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