Collection Highlights
Terms of Surrender
Date:
April 9, 1865
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Grant
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Primitive Pipes in Stalactites and Pot Stone
Object Number:
1872.23.206
Date:
1866-68
Medium:
Graphite and black ink on prepared card
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 46.7 x 61.3 cm )
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 206. / Primitive Pipes, in Stalactites & Pot Stone."; bowls numbered from upper left to lower right in graphite: 1 to 18
Description:
Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: Catlin's reproduction of the carving and construction of Native American pipes; eighteen pipe bowls, ten with no ornamental carving, all drawn with a 'cut-away' view to show internal construction methods
Credit Line:
Purchased by the Society
Provenance:
The artist's collection; Francis Putnam Catlin, the artist's brother, serving as agent to George Henry Moore, acting on behalf of N-YHS
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
