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A PLAINS WOOD AND STONE EFFIGY PIPE
composed of a wood stem of flattened rectangular section, with small stepped area before the short tubular mouthpiece, a slightly recessed area at the midsection for the grip, and finely carved in high relief with a splayed bear effigy, with grooved mouth and drilled eyes, inset into a steatite bowl, of elbow form with low crest on the shank, decorated with lead inlay
Length: 23½ in. (59.6 cm.) overall (2)
composed of a wood stem of flattened rectangular section, with small stepped area before the short tubular mouthpiece, a slightly recessed area at the midsection for the grip, and finely carved in high relief with a splayed bear effigy, with grooved mouth and drilled eyes, inset into a steatite bowl, of elbow form with low crest on the shank, decorated with lead inlay
Length: 23½ in. (59.6 cm.) overall (2)
Literature
Illustrated in Waldlandindianer und Bisonjager Nordamerikas, page 19 and in Die Prarieindianer Nordamerikas 1840 - 1890, plate 10.
Exhibited
Amerika Haus Berlin, Mar. 1 - 31, 1971; Jan. 26 - Mar. 3, 1976