pipe bowl

pipe bowl

pipe bowl

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Introduction

Pipe bowl carved from grey stone that has been blackened. Bowl is in the form of a human head. A. Speyer collection. Ojibwa.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Nation of Origin

E. Ojibway, Speyer gives "Wyandot" documentation (CMC record, May 1978).

Date Made or Date Range: 1840
Materials

blackened grey stone

Techniques or Format

carved and blackened

Motifs and Patterns

Bowl is in the form of a human head, facing towards smoker. Arching up from base of bowl to back of bowl is carved serpent-like figure with small limbs in low relief on sides. The front of the base is broken off and missing.

Dimensions: 8 × 0 × 9 cm
Condition: damaged; pieces missing from bowl edge, 'serpent' head, base front
Current Location: Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III-G-832
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1973
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: A. Speyer
Collection Narratives and Histories

(from Speyer, via T. Brasser) Formerly in the Collection of Fred North, London.

Exhibition History

Boujou Neejee, April 1976-August 1979
Cobourg Art Gallery, September 1979-October 1979

Publication History

Feder, N. Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art. New York: Praeger Publication, 1971 (see Figure 124, 125).

Comment on Source of Exhibition & Publication Data

CMC record (May 1975).

GKS Reference Number: 25818
Approximate Place of Origin

43.7918, -84.2994

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