On 4/27/2014 5:20 PM, Mann, Robbie wrote:
> Hi Carl,
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> Check out this short article on burials (both male and female) with teeth exhibiting pipe facets.  The burials are from the Patuxent Point site, Calvert County, Maryland.
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> http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/pipe.html
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> Best,
> Rob
>
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> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carl Steen
> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 2:07 PM
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> Subject: Pipe questions
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> Hi all. I'm looking at tobacco pipes from the Johannes Kolb site. This has a historic occupation that begins with Kolb, a German immigrant who lived in Skippack NJ before coming south in 1737. He lived at the site until the early 1760s. A second occupation begins after the American Revolution and continues through most of the 19th century. These were likely enslaved seasonal work groups engaged in agriculture. After emancipation they and their descendants were likely employed as agricultural laborers and loggers.
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> This is a two part question. I am finding the usual integral stem ball clay pipes, but also a fair number of stub stem (reed stem) pipes. A few of these are glazed, obvious 19th century examples, but about 98% are unglazed and crude looking enough to argue they are home made. Gottfried Aust brought the practice of making reed stem pipes to the Moravian pottery at Salem, NC in the early 1760s. My question is, did he introduce the practice in the Mid Atlantic at that time as well, or were German settlers making reed stem pipes at home before then? That is, could Kolb or one of his neighbors have made these pipes?
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> Part two. Three ball clay stems are modified. Two are sharpened to a point, which I interpret as being done to allow them to be fitted into a reed, extending the use life of the bowl. A third looks as if its owner chomped down on it with his or her front teeth so they could smoke hands free, perhaps while working. Has anyone seen evidence of this behavior in skeletal remains?
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> Thanks,
> Carl
Thanks Rob.