Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but said to have been acquired at an exhibition held by Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1892; formerly in the collection of Abel E. Brooks (1833-1917, a renowned collector of Civil War firearms); acquired by George Heye from an unknown source in 1906.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Sioux
- Previous owner
- Abel E. Brooks (A.E. Brooks), Non-Indian, 1833-1917
- Possible owner
- Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill/William Frederick Cody), Non-Indian, 1846-1917
- Date created
- circa 1890
- Object Name
- Pipe cleaner
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
