Pipe

Item number E2597-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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FROM CARD: "WOOD & IVORY INLAID WITH PEARL SHELL. 1/30/67: THE PIPE STEM WAS NOT LOCATED."As of 2008, no obvious scrimshaw was on this pipe.Possibly Haida. Pipe carved from one piece of wood which is inlaid on sides with rectangles of abalone shell. Iron pins support the the frets. Bone fret is on top of the stem and bone pieces are inlaid into the sides of the bowl which is copper alloy (possibly a piece from a musket barrel?) lined with iron. A lead fill is in the stem. An iron hexagonal nut caps the stem. There is an ethnographic deposit inside the bowl, possibly charred material from being smoked. Has original Peale # label.Old inked writing that is hard to deciper is on the pipe: "U.S. Ex. Ex. 2597 [?aget? - this may possibly be Puget, based on what is on other artifacts] Sd, by [R. P.R. ??]". If this is "R. P. R." then that may stand for R. P. Robinson, the Purser's steward on the U.S.S. Vincennes, and may indicate he was the collector?