pipe bowl

pipe bowl

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Introduction

Ceramic effigy pipe bowl in the shape of an owl's head. This pipe still had, at the time it was examined in 2008, the aroma of sweet tobacco and much evidence of use. Normal School Collection.

Nation of Maker: Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee Other
Nation of Origin

ROM record: Iroquoian; Petun.

Place of Origin: Nottawasaga Township, Simcoe County, ON
Materials

Ceramic

Motifs and Patterns

Owl; delineated feathers around eyes.

Other Notes

Definite smell of sweet tobacco.

From AARO, volume 1, p. 23: "In Fig. 13 it has been the evident intention of the aboriginal artificer to produce the semblance of an owl. The stem is lost, and the beak has been destroyed, but enough remains to prove that that the old pipe-maker who fashioned this bowl was an excellent mechanic."

Dimensions: 0 × 0 × 5 cm
Condition: Fair, pipe has been used. Beak is broken off. Has a patina.
Current Location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: NS6873
Collection at Current Location: Normal School Collection
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1912
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Toronto Normal School Museum of Natural History and Fine Arts
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1885
Previous Collectors: G. Lougheed
Collection Narratives and Histories

Item found on Lougheed farm, Nottawsaga Twp. ROM record notes it was collected by G. Lougheed in 1885.

Publication History

Sketch & comment appear in the AARO (Annual Archaeological Reports of Ontario): David Boyle, "Notes on Specimens," in Annual Report of the Canadian Institute, Session 1886-87, being part of Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario, 1887 (Toronto: Warwick & Sons, 1888) p. 23.
https://archive.org/details/annualreportofca01cana/page/n31/mode/2up?vi…+

Garrad Notes 1974

Comment on Source of Exhibition & Publication Data

ROM record lists Garrad Notes as a publication.

GKS Reference Number: 25403
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, pipe bowl. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, NS6873. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2008; GRASAC item id 25403.

Record Creation Context

Record created during a GRASAC trip to Royal Ontario Museum December 15 to 19, 2008. Present in the archaeology lab: Lewis Debassige (LD), Heidi Bohaker (HB), Stacey Loyer (SL), Darlene Johnston (DJ) and April Hawkins (AH), Anne de Stecher.

Approximate Place of Origin

44.41089, -80.25187

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