Pipe Bowl

Datec. 1800

MediumOlive brown fine grained stone (Wisconsin catlinite?)

DimensionsOverall: 3 × 1 7/8 × 4 1/4 in. (7.6 × 4.8 × 10.8 cm)

Object numberT0014

Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw

Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor, NYC

Label TextThis carved stone pipe bowl is very similar to one in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, illustrated by Ewers in Plains Indian Sculpture (cf. cat. no. CM830; Ewers 1986, pp. 36-37, fig. 8). Ewers identified that pipe bowl as Ojibwa on the basis that the stone came from Madeline Island, Wisconsin, an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) settlement from 1760 to 1820, and that stylistically similar pipe bowls have been recovered by archaeologists from that site. The pipe bowl illustrated here originated, presumable, in the same place (cf. Hidge 1973, p. 21, fig. 75; Benndork and Speyer 1968, p. 118, fig. 76, nr. 227). The image represents a warrior, his head shaved, except for the roach spreading from the crown down to the neck. (From the Catalog of the Thaw Collection of American Indian Art, 2nd ed.)
ProvenanceGeorge Terasaki, New York City
BibliographyVincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.70.

Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 61.

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