Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Pipe, Smoking |
Date |
1945ca |
Subjects |
Souvenirs Smoking Pipes (Smoking) Indians of North America Indigenous peoples Native Americans Native peoples Headdresses |
Material |
Wood/Plastic |
Description |
Souvenir pipe from Ausable Chasm. Small wooden "pipe" with stereotypical image of a Native American man wearing a feather headdress, head at side profile, on one side and "Ausable Chasm, N.Y [sic]" written on other side. Wooden pipe with plastic tip. |
Notes |
Same image (stereotypical depiction of Native American head profile with feather headdress) found on a wooden pipe listed on Ebay, originally sold in Lansing, Michigan. Appears pipe was mass-produced and sold widely as souvenir. This image largely comes from historically ignorant interpretations of Native American imagery and the headdress is most related to ceremonial examples from Plains/Dakota nations and are not authentic to pieces used by members of the Haudenosaunee confederacy past or present. |
Dimensions |
H-1.75 W-1.25 L-5 inches |
Collection |
SOUV Souvenirs |
Search Terms |
Au Sable Chasm AuSable Ausable Chasm Ausable Chasm (N.Y.) Souvenirs Smoking.; Native American Native Americans Indians Indigenous peoples-- |
Catalog Number |
2024.050.0003 |
Imagefile |
212\20240500003.JPG |