Object Details
- Collection History
- Probably collected between 1890 and 1896 by Thisba Hutson Morgan (1872-1966), a teacher at the Pine Ridge reservation school and wife of Bureau of Indian Affairs employee Howell Morgan (1863-1952); inherited by their son Cecil Morgan (1898-1999); donated to MAI by Cecil Morgan in 1983.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux) (attributed)
- Collector
- Thisba Hutson Morgan (Thisba Ann Hutson), Non-Indian, 1872-1966
- Previous owner
- Thisba Hutson Morgan (Thisba Ann Hutson), Non-Indian, 1872-1966
- Cecil Morgan, Non-Indian, 1898-1999
- Donor
- Cecil Morgan, Non-Indian, 1898-1999
- Date created
- 1880-1895
- Object Name
- Pipe bowl
- Media/Materials
- Catlinite/pipestone
- Techniques
- Carved, polished, drilled
- Dimensions
- 18.4 x 11 cm
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
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