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Title	Pipe and Tobacco Pouch
Subject	American Indians in Ohio Ohio Government Geography and Natural Resources Pipes Tobacco
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	This peace pipe is thought to be the one that Moses Cleaveland smoked with representatives of the Massasago tribe who were living in Conneaut when Cleaveland led the first Connecticut Land Company surveying party into Ohio's Western Reserve area in the summer of 1796. It is 7" (17.8 cm) long and lined with metal. The stem is carved with the neck and head of an animal. After the ceremonial smoking of the pipe, Paqua, chief of the Massasagoes, gave the pipe to Cleaveland, along with an unusual quillwork tobacco pouch. The buckskin tobacco pouch is decorated on the front only with geometric designs and the outline of two figures with hands joined. It measures 8.75" x 8" (22.23 x 20.32 cm). In return for these generous gifts, Cleaveland presented him with "a chain of wampum, silver trinkets, and other presents, and whiskey, to the amount of twenty-five dollars." Although Cleaveland described the Massasagoes as poor and begging for whiskey, another account describes a well-maintained village of approximately thirty cabins. Moses Cleaveland (1754-1806), Revolutionary war veteran and lawyer of Canterbury, Connecticut, invested $32,600 in the Connecticut Land Company in 1795. The Connecticut Land Company was authorized to sell land in the Western Reserve, which the Connecticut legislature reserved for its citizens in 1786. In preparation for the sale, Cleaveland was sent to survey and map the Reserve. Following his meeting with the Massasagoes, Cleaveland continued his journey to survey the area. On July 22, 1796, he laid out a town plan for the "capital city" of the Western Reserve at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, now called Cleveland. Cleaveland returned to his home in Connecticut in the fall and never returned to the Western Reserve.
Date of Original	1796 circa
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s) Museum # 43.2871 Museum # 43.2872
Submitting Institution	Western Reserve Historical Society
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; artifacts

Title	Om494_945882_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; 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	Om494_945882_001.tif
Image Height	1218
Image Width	1923
File Size	487.462 KB

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