Calumet (Pipe Bowl and Stem)

CultureEastern Plains or Western Great Lakes, probably Dakota (Eastern Sioux) or possibly Ojibwa, Minnesota

Dateca. 1830

MediumPipestone (catlinite), wood (ash), native pigment, feathers, woodpecker scalp, silk ribbon, and horsehair

DimensionsOverall (pipe without fringe): 35 × 2 × 5/8 inches (88.9 × 5.08 × 1.59 cm)
Part (fringe): 11 inches (27.94 cm)
Part (pipe bowl): 3 × 5 × 1 1/2 inches (7.62 × 12.7 × 3.81 cm)

Credit LineGift of Ned Jalbert and Keith Ravaioli

Object number2016.56.1,2

Markings65.194, an old registration number is written on the bowl with ink in two locations

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Not on view

Collections

North American Indian Art

Terms

DescriptionCatlinite pipe bowl with incised imagery along the full length of the wooden shaft. Five rectangular shaped areas along the stem are perforated with woodpecker scalps, silk ribbon and horsehair.Provenance

Provenance

Mrs. W. Thurston Rowley, West Hartford, CT;

Science Museum of Connecticut (Connecticut Science Center), Hartford, CT;

Sotheby's New York, NY, December 3, 1986;

Alex Acevedo, New York, NY;

Masco Collection, Detroit, MI;

Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, NM;

Purchased from Morningstar Gallery by Ned Jalbert, Westborough, MA;

Ned Jalbert and Keith Ravaioli, Westborough, MA;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.

Published References

Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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