NATIVE AMERICAN EFFIGY PIPE - CHILDBIRTH

Likely Hopewell culture, Ohio, carved dark red Catlinite in the form of a female giving birth, with leather straps and hollow pipestem
h. 10-1/2 in. (overall)
Provenance: Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), noted collector, curator, and scholar of Native American art; by descent to his brother-in-law, William D. Wixom, former curator and Chairman of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the estate of William D. Wixom, Pawling, NY

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