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pipe
pipe
pipe
Pipe adorned with motifs. Carved and made with wood and embedded glass eyes. Collected by Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand during his 1892/93 world tour.
Region unconfirmed, but possibly Niagara Falls.
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Wood, and embedded glass eyes.
Pipe is carved
exaggerated features
Origin seems dubious (as noted by Ruth Phillips).
Autumn Epple agrees with Phillips, noting that if this is tourist craft from the Niagara Falls region, it is a design not common with Haudenosaunee artisans.
Collected during Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand's 1892/93 world tour
Provenance
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown artist, pipe. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 114949. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 59058.
In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in January 2022 by GRASAC RA Amelia Healey.
Created using a spreadsheet with information made by Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake).
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Possibly from the Niagara Falls region? Autumn Epple notes that this may have been part of the tourist crafts created by Haudenosaunee crafters, and may have been Tuscarora, though the design is unfamiliar.