Pipe Bowl

1750-1800; Miami; Catlinite; height 7 cm (3 1/8 in.); Founders Society Purchase; 81.265

As with the Effigy Platform Pipe, the face carved on one side of the Pipe Bowl faces the smoker when the pipe is used. This pipe bowl was once part of a bundle of "war medicine" that protected warriors from their enemies while in combat. Part of the ritual for activating the power of the bundle was the act of smoking tobacco in acknowledgment of the blessings and spiritual gifts that the bundle represented.

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