Catlinite pipe bowl (part a) with pewter/lead inlay and a quill work pipe stem (part b). The pipe bowl is black with inlaid grey and red designs on the bowl and the end of the shank with the mortise. The design closest to the opening of bowl has a curved upper edge and straight bottom edge, with repeating alternating black and red designs within. The next design has a zigzag upper edge and straight bottom edge. Last is a solid band. The shank is square on the mortise end, tapering in to a blunt end. The bowl is conical. The pipe stem is wooden and decorated with wrapped quill work of checkerboard pattern in bands of colour (red, black, blue, green, natural quill) alternating with natural quill. The quill work is stitched together along the long edge. On one end of the pipestem is a cylindrical tenon (that inserts into the mortise) and at the opposite end is the carved mouthpiece separated by a carved circle.

• Narrative

  Collected by the donor's father while he was stationed in the Saskatchewan area, c. 1959-1963. Described as a pre-1850 pipe from the Great Lakes or Eastern Prairies.

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• Type of Item pipe
• Culture Plains, Eastern Woodlands
• Material cotton fibre, wood, catlinite stone, lead metal, porcupine quill, dye
• Measurements height 7.3 cm, width 3.5 cm, depth 5.8 cm (part a) height 1.5 cm, width 1.5 cm, depth 26.5 cm (part b)

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• Previous Owner Willis John Moogk, Peter Moogk
• Received from Peter Moogk

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• Made in Canada
• Collected in Saskatchewan

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• Creation Date between 1800 and 1850
• Collection Date between 1959 and 1963
• Ownership Date before 1990, before February 11, 2023
• Acquisition Date on February 11, 2023

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• Condition poor
• Accession Number 3616/0003 a-b