Hi Mark,

You might want to take a look at the chapter by Rich Veit and Charles Bello
in a volume that Sean Rafferty and I edited--Smoking and Culture: The
Archaeology of Smoking Pipes in Eastern North America (2004, The University
of Tennessee Press).  The Veit and Bello chapter is titled "Neat and
Artificial Pipes": Base Metal Trade Pipes of the Northeastern Indians.

Best,
Rob

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Louisiana State University
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Subject: Pipe Bowl ID?

Hello Folks,

Just found this little white metal pipe bowl on a ca. 1815-1830 farmstead in
southern Illinois.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/692/p6060018dn.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/209/p6060019.jpg/

Unique to my experience . I suppose it could be an opium pipe, but the
context seems a bit of a stretch. Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Mark


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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their

faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving

only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their

cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste

of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to

make plans." - E. Hemingway