Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by Bernard Fillip Jacobsen (1863-1935, a collector and cannery owner/operator at Bella Coola on Vancouver Island, British Columbia) at an unknown date; inherited by his widow Helga Thorsen Jacobsen (1876-1939); purchased by MAI from Helga Jacobsen in 1936 through William A. Newcombe (1884-1960, a Vancouver, British Columbia, collector).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Nuxalk (Bellacoola)
- Collector
- Bernard Fillip Jacobsen (B.F. Jacobsen/Fillip Jacobsen), Non-Indian, 1863-1935
- Previous owner
- Bernard Fillip Jacobsen (B.F. Jacobsen/Fillip Jacobsen), Non-Indian, 1863-1935
- Seller
- Helga Thorsen Jacobsen (Mrs. Bernard Fillip Jacobsen), Non-Indian, 1876-1939
- MAI agent
- William A. Newcombe (William Newcomb), Non-Indian, 1884-1960
- Object Name
- Pipe bowl
- Media/Materials
- Stone, steatite/soapstone
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
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