
Carved Pipe bowl; Indigenous peoples, North America
58.83.6.3
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Pipe bowl carved from red-brown stone (possibly catlinite), simple form with fronding pattern to upper side of stem. Broken into three pieces, repaired.
The Anishinabe people believed that smoking tobacco helped to contact the spirits. Pipes similar to this would have been presented to Colonel DePeyster at his meeting with members of tribes of the Lakes & upper Mississippi in 1775.