Catlinite Pipe and Quilled Wooden Stem

Place of OriginNorth America

Datemid 18th century

Dimensions45 3/8 × 2 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. (115.3 × 6.7 × 2.9 cm)

MediumCatlinite (stone), wood, porcupine quills, natural dyes, metal wire

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange

Object number

2023.363A-B

Not on View

DescriptionThe object is composed of an openwork, tubular wood stem, bound together with fine wire, and braided and plain quillwork, in orange, ivory, black and green; together with an elbow shaped catliniate pipe bowl.

Published ReferencesPhillips, Ruth B. and Dale Idiens, “‘A Casket of Savage Curiosities’: Eighteenth-century Objects from Northeastern North America in the Farquharson Collection,” Journal of the History of Collections, 1994, vol. 6, no. 1.