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Catlinite Pipe and Quilled Wooden Stem
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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
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 18
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.

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