Materials

black pipestone (steatite)

Techniques or Format

carved

Motifs and Patterns

Effigy form with bowl representing human head facing the smoker. In front of the bowl, also facing the smoker, is a carved seated male figure, with legs drawn up, hands resting on the knees.

Dimensions: 14.5 × 0 × 7 mm

Condition: Forearms of seated figure broken off. Apparently there was originally further carving at proximal end of base, this is now broken off and missing.

Current Location: Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III-G-823

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 Daniel Wilson. </p>
(Brasser) "This bowl may be one of the two mentioned on p. 40 in Daniel Wilson's book, collected by Paul Kane on Manitoulin Is., 1854" </p>
Note: Wilson was born in 1816; came to Canada 1853. </p>

Exhibition History

Boujou Neegee, April 1976-August 1976</p>
Cobourg Art Gallery, September 1979-October 1979 </p>

Publication History

Wilson, Daniel. Pipes and Tobacco. Toronto, 1857.
Wrong, G. M. and H. H. Langton, eds. Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada. Toronto: William Briggs, 1901. </p>
Trigger, Bruce G. Sir Daniel Wilson: Canada's First Anthropologist. Anthropologica. 8(1), 1966. </p>

Comment on Source of Exhibition & Publication Data

CMC record (May/75)

GKS Reference Number: 25966