Carved Horn Buck Pipe-Bowl Item Number: E9266-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "THE PROXIMAL END OF AN ANTLER, WITH A FACE CARVED ON ONE SIDE, FACING DOWN FROM THE END, AND OUTLINES OF THE FIGURE IN SQUATTING POSITION TOWARD THE FURTHER END, THE STEM HOLE COMING OUT AT THIS END AND FORMED FROM A NATURAL BRANCH OF THE ANTLER. THOUGH IT APPEARS TO HAVE ACCULTUREATED INFLUENCES, IT HAS N.W. COAST TECHNIQUES RATHER THAN ESKIMO.-KRIEGER & ELDER."
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected by Dr. Alexander H. Hoff in Alaska, USA between 1867 and 1869
- Received from Army Medical Museum during 1870
What
- Name
- Carved Horn Buck Pipe-Bowl
- Identification Number
- E9266-0
- Type of Item
- pipe
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- Dr. Alexander H. Hoff
- Received from
- Army Medical Museum
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- between 1867 and 1869
- Acquisition Date
- during 1870
Other
- Accession Number
- 001767