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Tobacco smoking was a valued social custom in Arctic cultures, making pipes essential possessions that were often exchanged as gifts. As such, pipes were carefully and slowly created, their value being determined by their color and the amount of time spent creating them. This object's original...
| Format: | Other/Unknown Material |
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| Language: | unknown |
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Mary Church Terrell Main Library
1889
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| Online Access: | http://server15963.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/ocec,6449 |
| Summary: | Tobacco smoking was a valued social custom in Arctic cultures, making pipes essential possessions that were often exchanged as gifts. As such, pipes were carefully and slowly created, their value being determined by their color and the amount of time spent creating them. This object's original tag says that it is made of stone and brown clay slate, but this is not the case, so it is possible that the wrong tag was attached to the item. |
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