- Name:
- Stone pipe bowl fragment (likely platform or elbow pipe)
- Description:
Artifact Type: Stone pipe bowl fragment (likely platform or elbow pipe)
Material: Fine-grained stone (likely steatite/soapstone or dense sandstone)
Manufacturing Technique: Hollowed bowl cavity with smoothed exterior
Condition: Fragment; bowl portion preserved with broken stem section
Size: Approximately 1–1.5 inches remaining length
Form / Edge Type: Deep rounded bowl cavity with cylindrical exterior
Function: Smoking pipe used for tobacco or ceremonial plants
Cultural Period: Woodland – Mississippian (approx. 500 BCE – 1500 CE)
Find Location: Tennessee River Valley region (exact location unknown)
- Accession Number:
- 2024.1.207
- Prior Inventory Number:
- 667
- Collection:
- Sub Collection:
- Category:
- Anthropology
- Keywords:
- Elbow Pipe, Pipe bowl, Platform Pipe
- Object Size (LxWxH):
- 1.5" x .75" x .75"
- Type/Materials:
- Sandstone
- Origin Continent:
- North America
- Origin Country:
- United States
- Origin State/Province:
- Unknown
- Origin City/Town:
- Unknown
- Date/Era:
- Quarternary Period (0-2.6m years)
