Pipe Bowl Item Number: 25.0/344 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Pipes were made and used on the Northwest Coast from the period of White contact when the custom of smoking tobacco was introduced. They were made of many materials and in many forms. This small stone pipe utilizes the form of a frog, with the pipe bowl in his back and a hole for the stem under his chin. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
- Name
- Pipe Bowl
- Identification Number
- 25.0/344
- Type of Item
- pipe bowl
- Material
- sandstone stone
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved
- Overall
- length 1.5 in, height 1.5 in, width 1.0 in
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Frog
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection