Native American Pipe

Native American Pipe

Native American Pipe

Native Americans

Amerindians

Indigenous peoples--United States

Pipes

Smoking--United States

Tobacco--Southern States

This straight tube is considered the most primitive form of a smoking pipe. This specific pipe is made out of Steatite ,but it is also common to find these pipe’s made out of Greenstone. These pipes are known to be symmetrical and have a smooth prepared finish. Most of these pipes were used as smoking pipes, but it is also known that indigenous shamans used pipes in ritual settings and for healing purposes. Commonly used during tribal pow-wows, members of the tribe put tobacco into one side of the pipe and smoked the tobacco at the other end with a reed. This rare pipe was found in Seminole County, Florida, and has numerous cracks throughout with one side of the pipe’s bowl broken off.

Original color digital image, 2015: Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.

2015

Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.

Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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1 steatite pipe

Physical Object

Seminole County, Florida

Donation

History Teacher

Loaned to the Museum of Seminole County History by the Mid-Florida Archaeological and Historical Society.

Copyright to this resource is held by the Mid-Florida Archaeological and Historical Society and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Fried, Aaron

Cepero, Laura

"A History of Central Florida: Episode 11: Tobacco Pipes." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/4551.

3 color digital images