Native american pipe?

[captain redbeard]

Did scratch test and it looks to be white clay. Was found in a creek in cayuga county NY. Deff appears to be a pipe and my thoughts were native american.

 

[Tpmetal]

could be, doesn't look as refined as most of the colonial ones i've seen. Im no expert though. nice find.

 

[monsterrack]

It could be but most of the NA pipes made from clay that I have seen was a type of pottery and none were made from a white clay, but I don't know your area artifacts. Either way it is a real good find.

 

[captain redbeard]

There is a lot of white clay around here in our creeks/rivers from what I have seen, though the pottery I dug up not long ago was all the brown colored clay, but that could have been from processing. I don't know a whole lot about the clay/pottery uses and processing.

 

[Tpmetal]

yup lots of clay of alll sorts of types here in western ny

 

[GaRebel1861]

What does the inside of the bowl look like?

 

[gentleone444]

Look into tavern pipes? Those were made of white clay...found one in a creek a while back...the shape of this is different but maybe its a variant

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[captain redbeard]

What does the inside of the bowl look like?

I'll get a better pic when I get home

 

[arrow86]

Your certain it's not bone?

 

[captain redbeard]

I thought maybe it could be a root concretion, but definitely not bone.

 

[monsterrack]

This is as close as I can come to what you have. the 1st is an Elizabeth clay trade pipeThe next 2 are NA clay pipesHope this helps.

 

[DigIron2]

sure is some funny lookin tobacco in that bowl monster

 

[captain redbeard]

Thanks Monsterrack, I wasn't really able to find many of this type. Though the ones I did see had almost the same angled bowl, just a little deeper. Not sure how long its been banged around this outlet, but just this year they have had it gushing like crazy with all this rain. Still surprised its whole.

 

[BearCreek]

I'd be doing a happy dance! What a killer find!

 

[unclemac]

There is a lot of white clay around here in our creeks/rivers from what I have seen, though the pottery I dug up not long ago was all the brown colored clay, but that could have been from processing. I don't know a whole lot about the clay/pottery uses and processing.

the white clay you see most likely fires to the brown, reddish pottery you find. I find green, white, yellow, clays all the time and they all fire brick red.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

I thought maybe it could be a root concretion, but definitely not bone.

The first and third pictures look like a concretion formed around a root, but that second pic looks like a Pipe with some of the bowl missing. Would have to see inside the bowl and stem to say for sure.

 

[mainejman]

These were all found near water...The one bowl has a steam locomotive on one side and a steam schooner on the back....tavern pipes could have been traded in later periods..mjm

 

[CHUDs]

It looks like it was used to take a lil puff recently!

 

[captain redbeard]

It looks like it was used to take a lil puff recently!

It is fully functional

 

[Old Pueblo]

Id say so. The blackness on the inside is probably from tobacco.