Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the “Moss collection” and said to have been purchased at an auction held by the Williams, Barker & Severn Company (Chicago, Illinois), probably before 1947; purchased by MAI from an unknown source in 1968.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Non-Indian (archaeological)
- Auction venue
- Williams, Barker, & Severn Co.
- Previous owner
- (unknown first name) Moss, Non-Indian
- Date created
- circa 1800
- Object Name
- Pipe mold
- Media/Materials
- Steel
- Techniques
- Forged
- Object Type
- Pottery making tools
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