Pipe Item Number: E 1897.17 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
Intricately carved panel pipe with interlocking animal and human characters. Very hard to accurately identify individual creatures.; Good
Context
The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; The style and subject matter of this object conforms to those of the First Period of argillite carving, 1800-1835, the so-called period of Haida non-sense . The carvings are typically ceremonial pipes and Panel pipes, depicting ambiguous creatures that on first glance appear to resemble crest animals but on closer examination are revealed to be non-sensical combinations of characteristics. The reason for this subversion of crest designs is possibly because at this time the giving away of crest bearing objects was antithetical to Haida social and cultural beliefs. This was because attendant on the ownership of a crest was a variety of resources and privileges which could not be jeopardised by a counter claim to access communicated by ownership of a crest bearing object. To own a crest bearing object communicated a legitimate claim to the attendant resources, therefore to give away such objects was not sanctioned (G.Crowther). (The time periods of argillite carvingare derived from Carol Sheehan' s Pipes That Won' t Smoke; Coal That Won' t Burn; Haida Sculpture in Argillite, 1981, Glenbow Museum: Calgary, and Peter Macnair and Alan Hoover' s The Magic Leaves, 1984, British Columbian Provincial Museum: Victoria.); Exhibited: CUMAA new Anthropological displays, July 1990- , Northwest Coast square case, object number 8.; Collected by: Fielden.Colonel.H.W in 1846
Item History
- Made in Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, Canada
- Received from H.W. Feilden Colonel during 1897
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Received from
- H.W. Feilden Colonel
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1897
Other
- Keyword
- Art; Tourist Objects; Narcotics and Intoxicants