Plains Indian wooden pipe stem

Plains Indian wooden pipe stem, part of a collection of ethnographical material made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878). The pipe stem is bound with plaited quillwork coloured black, white and orange and decorated with a horsehair plume.

The object is similar to an Iowa pipe bowl and stem in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA 81, 237 and 81.258) reproduced in David W. Penney 'The Art of the American Indian Frontier' (University of Washington, ca 1992) p. 268.

Object Details

ID: AAA2662
Collection: World Cultures
Type: Pipe stem
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1819-1834; 1819-34
People: Back, George
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection
Measurements: Overall: 1090 x 57 x 10 mm
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