Tobacco Pipes

Object types tobacco-pipe

Materials stone

Place (findspot)

Found/Acquired South Carolina (?)

Date 18thC

Ethnic group Made by Northeast Peoples (?) Made by Southeast Peoples (?) Made by Cherokee (?)

Description Tobacco pipe made of black steatite.

Dimensions Length: 21 centimetres Height: 7 centimetres

Acquisition date 1753

Acquisition name Bequeathed by Sir Hans Sloane

Exhibition History 1999 25 Jun-2011 2 Mar, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Southeastern Woodlands" 1977 15 Dec-1978 30 Oct, Museum of Mankind, Room 9; Smoking Pipes of the North American Indian

Copy and photos from The British Museum.