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Figural Pipe Bowl
Delaware (?)
Western Great Lakes
ca. 1800-1850
stone, paint
length: 6 ⅞"
height: 5 ¼"
Inventory # CW4314-111
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in the form of a seated human figure, arms outstretched onto raised knees, the face separated from the body on the upright section of the bowl
no evidence of restoration or repair
PROVENANCE
an inscription on base of pipe reads: “B. J. Webster Jan. 1897 H1422”
Trotta-Bono, Shrub Oak, NY
George Terasaki, New York, NY
Herman Von Bonk, Berlin, Germany
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Private collection, Toronto, ON
PUBLISHED
American Indian Art Magazine, Volume 12, Number 13, Summer 1987, pg. 2
RELATED EXAMPLES
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, Toronto, 2004, pg. 9
National Museum of Man (The Speyer Collection), Cat. No. NMM III-G-823 - See:Brasser, Ted. "Bo'jou, Neejee!". Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1976, pg. 85, pl. 39
