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Wooden pipe
Object Number 69-30-10/1865
Display Title Wooden pipe
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden pipe; bear & ?. Wooden pipe. Embossed tubular bowl of brass, salvaged from some unknown object of European manufacture. Bear, intent on devouring a salmon, stands over a crouching frog.
Inventory Description Carved wooden pipe, bear on top of frog, eating fish, tubular impressed bowl.
Classification
  • Pipe
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tlingit?
  • Haida?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Wood, Metal
Dimensions Overall: 10.6 x 11.2 x 4.5 cm (4 3/16 x 4 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 69-30-10/1865
Provenance
Collector Capt. Edward Gustavus Fast (1867-1868)
Donor Capt. Edward Gustavus Fast (1869)

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