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Title	Pipe, Platform Hawk Effigy.
Subject	Effigies.; Hopewell culture.; Mound-builders.; Stone carving.; Tobacco pipes.; Woodland culture.
Description	Platform: 84 mm long, 40 mm wide (29 mm anterior, 31 mm posterior), 9 mm deep; Bowl: 31 mm high, 14 mm diameter; Effigy: 51 mm long, 27 mm wide.; This pipe is part of a large collection of pipes found at Tremper Mound. Most of the pipes were carved of Ohio pipestone, a silica-based material that can be easily carved when freshly quarried from the hills east of the Scioto River. The pipes represent a variety of animals significant to the Hopewell, including owls, wolves, deer and beaver. Skilled Hopewell craftsmen carved the pipes with flint knives and some are embellished with pearls or copper.; This item was on display in the First Ohioans Exhibit at the Ohio Historical Center (1986-2006).; This item is included in Windows on the Collection at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus (opened July 2006).
Type	Catlinite.; Pipes (smoking equipment)
Language	zxx
Relation	http://worldcat.org/oclc/71324649/viewonline; http://www.ohiohistory.org/ohiopix/; http://www.ohiomemory.org; http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=0025263.html&StartPage=263&EndPage=398&volume=25&newtitle=Volume%2025%20Page%20263
Description-Abstract	Effigy of a hawk, identified by William C. Mills as a "paroquete" shows the bird standing on the pipe platform with wings folded and wing tips crossed over the tail. The hawk's head is turned at a right angle to the long axis of the platform. Legs and talons are engraved very realistically on the bowl and platform, respectively. Eyes are drilled (2.5 mm diameter) and inset with pearls. A considerable amount of detail is shown of feathers around the head, on legs, and on the underside of bird. Tip of tail was broken prehistorically. Effigy and platform show slight striations; bowl interior is smooth. Both effigy and platform were broken and have been refitted. Anterior end of platform is squared, posterior end is slightly rounded. Slight prehistoric damage along left side of anterior portion of platform. The pipe is made of olive gray Ohio pipestone mottled with darker olive gray.
Format-Extent	1 pipe : olive gray ; 64 x 40 x 84 mm.
Format-Medium	Ohio Pipestone ; pearl ; carved, ground, polished, drilled.
Coverage-Spatial	United States of America--Ohio--Scioto--Rush Township.
PDI.Title	Pipe, Platform - / Hawk Effigy.
OCLC number	71324649

Title	Page 1 Pipe, Platform Hawk Effigy.
Subject	Effigies.; Hopewell culture.; Mound-builders.; Stone carving.; Tobacco pipes.; Woodland culture.
Description	Platform: 84 mm long, 40 mm wide (29 mm anterior, 31 mm posterior), 9 mm deep; Bowl: 31 mm high, 14 mm diameter; Effigy: 51 mm long, 27 mm wide.; This pipe is part of a large collection of pipes found at Tremper Mound. Most of the pipes were carved of Ohio pipestone, a silica-based material that can be easily carved when freshly quarried from the hills east of the Scioto River. The pipes represent a variety of animals significant to the Hopewell, including owls, wolves, deer and beaver. Skilled Hopewell craftsmen carved the pipes with flint knives and some are embellished with pearls or copper.; This item was on display in the First Ohioans Exhibit at the Ohio Historical Center (1986-2006).; This item is included in Windows on the Collection at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus (opened July 2006).
Type	Catlinite.; Pipes (smoking equipment)
Language	zxx
Relation	http://worldcat.org/oclc/71324649/viewonline; http://www.ohiohistory.org/ohiopix/; http://www.ohiomemory.org; http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=0025263.html&StartPage=263&EndPage=398&volume=25&newtitle=Volume%2025%20Page%20263
Description-Abstract	Effigy of a hawk, identified by William C. Mills as a "paroquete" shows the bird standing on the pipe platform with wings folded and wing tips crossed over the tail. The hawk's head is turned at a right angle to the long axis of the platform. Legs and talons are engraved very realistically on the bowl and platform, respectively. Eyes are drilled (2.5 mm diameter) and inset with pearls. A considerable amount of detail is shown of feathers around the head, on legs, and on the underside of bird. Tip of tail was broken prehistorically. Effigy and platform show slight striations; bowl interior is smooth. Both effigy and platform were broken and have been refitted. Anterior end of platform is squared, posterior end is slightly rounded. Slight prehistoric damage along left side of anterior portion of platform. The pipe is made of olive gray Ohio pipestone mottled with darker olive gray.
Format-Extent	1 pipe : olive gray ; 64 x 40 x 84 mm.
Format-Medium	Ohio Pipestone ; pearl ; carved, ground, polished, drilled.
Coverage-Spatial	United States of America--Ohio--Scioto--Rush Township.
PDI.Title	Pipe, Platform - / Hawk Effigy.
OCLC number	71324649

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