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Raccoon Effigy Pipe Made of Gray and Brown Mottled Stone

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Title	Raccoon Effigy Pipe Made of Gray and Brown Mottled Stone
Subject	American Indians in Ohio Plants and Animals Arts and Entertainment Geography and Natural Resources Hopewell culture Mounds (Burials) Pipes (Smoking) Raccoons
Place	Rush Township (Ohio) Scioto County (Ohio)
Description	This pipe in effigy (a likeness or representation) of a raccoon was excavated from Tremper Mound, a Hopewell culture site located five miles north of Portsmouth in Scioto County. The animal is shown crouched on bowl of pipe with legs flexed, and its tail extends to the platform. The details of the face--mask", mouth, and nostrils--were carefully carved in low relief. The left front leg and adjoining section of bowl, right side of bowl, and right shoulder of effigy are restored, as is the section of the tail that is completely in the round and a small section of the platform. The effigy pipe measures approximately 1.5" x 3.5" x 1.25" (3.81 x 8.89 x 3.18 cm). This pipe is part of a large collection of pipes found at Tremper Mound. 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. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large--the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior.
Date of Original	100 - 200 A.D.
Collection	William D. Tremper Collection http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/ohiopix/index.cfm
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s); A 125/000048
Format	picture; artifacts
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
Date created	2010-08-30

Title	Om1357_1136381_060
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1357_1136381_060.tif
Image Height	1960
Image Width	3008
File Size	823.048 KB
Date created	2009-01-15

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