Clubs and Pipes

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Clubs and Pipes

Dimensions

16 5/16 × 10 in. (41.4 × 25.4 cm)

Medium

watercolor and graphite on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.311

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

1. Wooden club, Otoe or Omaha. Decorated with brass nails, a skunk tail, and strings with human teeth attached. Reproduced as a woodcut in Travels in the Interior of North America. 2-7. Pipe bowls and stems, Sioux. Bowls carved of catlinite, two decoratively inlaid with lead. Numbers 4 and 5 were reproduced in Tableau 48 of the aquatints, the remainder as woodcuts in Travels in the Interior of North America. Numbers 4, 6, and 7 now in the Linden-Museum collection. 8. Club. Carved of catlinite with lead inlay; intended for show or ceremonial use rather than battle. Now in the Linden-Museum collection, attributed to the Mandans. 9. Club. Stone head, wood and rawhide haft. 10. Wooden club, Ponca. See Image 1986.49.315. Reproduced as a woodcut in Travels in the Interior of North America.

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