Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 2408Location: BostonDate / Time: May 10, 2008 10:00AM
Description:
Early Great Lakes Quilled Pipe, Micmac (?),c. first half 19th century, cylindrical wood stem wrapped with multicolored bird quill and black horse (?) hair, black stone tulip-shaped bowl, tapered keel at bottom, with relief-carved crescent shapes, lg. 19 1/2 in.
Literature: For a similar stem see American Indian Art Magazine, volume 33, no. 1, p. 66, and The Spirit Sings, Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples, 1987, p. 22.
Estimate $4,000-6,000