A cylindrical wooden stick with a hide disk wrapped with porcupine quills dyed blue, red, yellow white, and decorated with metal brass cones containing animal hair.

A wooden stick with a disk at the top. The disk is pierced by a hole through which four throngs wrapped in porcupine quills are attached. Wrapped quillwork decorates the stick.

Stripes. The quill wrapping is stylistically similar to Subarctic items.

LP has heard of highly ornamented pipe bowl cleaners - it could be a pipe bowl cleaner, not a pipe stem cleaner.

Morgan Baillargeon, Curator of Plains Ethnology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization does not believe it is a pipe tamper, but rather that it looks more like a stick used for making the four corners of an "altar" for ceremony, or a drum stick.

Donated to the British Museum by Mrs. Irene Marguerite Beasley in 1944. Previously owned by Harry Geoffrey Beasley.

Unknown artist, unknown object. Currently in the British Museum, Am1944,02.245. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25604.

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Darlene Johnston (DJ), Jonathan King (JK), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Cory Willmott (CW).