Pipe Bowl

between 1750 and 1800

Miami, Native American

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Native American, Level 1, South Wing

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About the Artwork

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.

Title Pipe Bowl

Artwork Date between 1750 and 1800

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Native american

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Miami

Medium Catlinite

Dimensions Overall: 3 1/8 × 2 5/8 inches (7.9 × 6.7 cm)

Classification Stone and Stonecarving

Department Indigenous Americas

Credit Founders Society Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 81.265

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Provenance

Camillius Bundy (Peru, Indiana, USA)

before 1925, purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]

purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)

1981-present, purchased 1981 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, no. 72.

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 156.

Penney, David W. and George C. Longfish, Native American Art, Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1994, p. 70.

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Keeled Bar-Weight

North American, Native American

between 1000 BCE and 600 CE

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