Carved Pipe with Bear Cub Figure
Chic-a-la-lee
Cherokee
Southeast
collected about 1907
Stone
Overall: 1 15/16 × 1 9/16 × 1 1/16 in. (5 × 4 × 2.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9915
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Pipe
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southeast
Not on view
Provenance
Unknown maker (died 1907); owned Stilwell Saunooke, Chief of the Eastern Cherokee of North Carolina (1891-1895); given to Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Cherokee, North Carolina, 1907; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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