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Object Number
985-27-10/60316
Display Title
Bone pipe
Descriptions
Object Description
Pipe, possibly from the Plains. Straight pipe made from the leg bone of a deer. Wrapped at wider end w/ sinew. 22.6x3.4 cm.
Inventory Description
Pipe?, tapered worked bone, wrapped with rawhide sinew one end
Classification
- Pipe
Department
Ethnographic
Date
19th century
Culture
- Plains?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Additional Geographic Terms
Plains?
Materials
Deer Bone?, Rawhide, Sinew
Dimensions
Overall: 23 x 4 x 3.1 cm (9 1/16 x 1 9/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
985-27-10/60316, 24893
Provenance
Collector
William Radcliff Morris
(1878-1893)
Previous owner
Mrs. Mary Morris
(1930)
Donor
William H. Claflin, Jr.
(1985)
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