Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but said to have been collected in 1864; acquired by Dr. George Jackson Fisher (1825-1893, an obstetrician and collector in Ossining, New York) at an unknown date; acquired by the Union Free School, District One, Ossining, New York, in 1894; donated to MAI by the Union Free School in 1960.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Middle Woodland Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Dr. George Jackson Fisher (Dr. G. J. Fisher), Non-Indian, 1825-1893
- Union Free School, District One
- Donor
- Union Free School, District One
- Date created
- 100 BC–AD 600 (Middle Woodland period)
- Object Name
- Pipe fragment
- Media/Materials
- Steatite/soapstone
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
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