Hi Sara,
I was not able to see the photo on Archaeoseek, but you might want to take a look at Greg Waselkov and Bonnie Gums (2000) report on the work at Rivière aux Chiens plantation near Mobile. They recovered at least twenty-seven aboriginal clay pipes in their excavations. For more general studies, you might take a look at the volume that Sean Rafferty and I (2004) edited, Smoking and Culture: the Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes in Eastern North America, University of Tennessee Press. Sean has a long-term research interest in pipe residue analysis and you might want to contact him regarding the possibilities of having the residue tested. Sean is at SUNY-Albany and is still actively involved in applying gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy analysis to pipe residues.
Best,
Rob Mann
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Subject: Native (?) pipe identification
Hello:
I'm a student at the University of Chicago, and I'm hoping to get opinions on
some pipe bowl fragments found this summer in New Orleans, Louisiana behind
St. Antoine's church. I've uploaded a picture at http://archaeoseek.ning.com/
photo/pipe-lot-135?context=user The four incised fragments on the
left are the pipe bowl. They appear to be hand built, have a black residue on the
inside that has yet to be tested but that indicates it was used, and date to the
early- to mid-1700s.
So far I've been unable to identify either tribal provenience or even a general
area it might have come from. The incisions don't follow typical Mississippian
patterns and the pipe shape itself is more typically European. This is my first
time working with pipes, so if there are any good typologies out there for North
America that I somehow missed, I'd appreciate that information, plus of course
any insights you have to offer about this particular artifact.
Cordially,
Sarah Sticha
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