Pipe
Item number 1954.128 from the MAA: University of Cambridge.
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Description
An elbow pipe with bone inlay and wooden and bone superstructures representing European houses, (some of the walls are missing). The design includes foliage and trees, the trunks of which appear to have been painted red. Inside one of the houses a piece of printed paper has been wrapped around the pipe bowl.; Good
Context
The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields. This pipe is similar to one from a private collection illustrated in Bill Holm' s book The Box of Daylight University of Washington Press:Seattle 1983, page 103. Holm notes a scrap of printed paper used on the pipe is in the Hawiian language. The text on this pipe has not been identified, it could however also be Hawaiian (G.Crowther).; The style and subject matter of this object conforms to those of the Second Period of argillite carving, 1830 -1865. This was the time when the Haida confidently depicted aspects of European culture created in a uniquely Haida medium and expressed with the characteristic detail of observation. The types of objects are ship pipes, European standing figures, western tableware, flutes and trade pipes. (The time periods of argillite carving are 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 old exhibition, taken from display case 30, dismantled 19081986.; Collected by: ?Beasley.I.M in 1844
Item History
- Made in Fort Simpson, British Columbia, Canada ?
- Received from I.M. Beasley during 1954
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- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- Fort Simpson, British Columbia, Canada ?
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Received from
- I.M. Beasley
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1954
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- Art; Tourist Objects; Narcotics and Intoxicants
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