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Hello All,
I was hoping someone out there could help me in identifying a stoneware effigy pipe recovered last summer near Petersburg, Virginia. The pipe was excavated from a plantation site dating to the late 18th to mid-to-late 19th centuries. Two other pipe fragments were recovered with similar features. Limited amounts of research have been conducted on this artifact. We had been attributing it to the Moravian tradition but this pipe is so much more stylized than the classically influenced Moravian reed pipes that I feel uncomfortable in definitely saying this. The Virginia Department of Historic Resources has a similar stylized effigy pipe on display but the report contains no information on the production of the pipe. Has anyone seen anything similar or have any information on the production of these sort of pipes. Thanks!
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Amanda Vtipil
Curator/Archaeologist
Regional Archaeological Curation Facility
Environmental Management Office
Fort Lee, VA
804.734.4436
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