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Item Details
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Culture
antebellum
Title
Kaolin pipe, stem fragment
Work Type
equipment for personal use: smoking and tobacco use
beads (pierced objects)
Date
ca. 1800-1850
Location
Cumberland Island,Camden,Georgia,United States
Material
ceramic (material)
kaolin pipe-clay
Description
Stem fragment of a kaolin (white clay) tobacco pipe. Molded decoration of lines, bands, and beads (similar but not identical to those on Anthr1983_002_0072). These pipes were made with stems from a few inches to a foot or more in length, and tradition has it that the end would be broken off when shared so that the smoker has a fresh bit (or perhaps more likely, the prevalence of broken pipestems simply reflects their fragility). In the context here, these pipestem fragments may have been curated for use as beads. Archaeologists use the bore diameter of collections of pipestems to calculate the age of the collection, but the small collection size and likelihood of curation in a slavery context makes that less useful here.
Accession Number
Anthr1983_002_0050_01
Related Item
Robert Ascher and Charles H. Fairbanks, "Excavation of a Slave Cabin: Georgia, U.S.A." Historical Archaeology 5 (1971), pp.3-17.
Condition
Period breaks at both ends, possibly slightly smoothed or worn (ends are not rounded or completely smoothed, but are noticeably smoother than other breaks)
Agent2
Prof. Emeritus Robert Ascher, one of the principal excavators
Provenance
Slave cabin on the Rayfield Plantation, excavated in 1969 in one of the first archaeological studies of slavery in the US.
Archival Collection
Georgia Slave Cabin archaeological collection
Rights
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