Old Clay Pipe Bowl with Face and Legs, Presumed Native American Baca series with a pronounced rounded lip

with a pronounced rounded lip

Smaller ship: paper size 8" x 10

There are a few small patches of loss

hinged box

and the top

Old Clay Pipe Bowl with Face and Legs, Presumed Native American Baca series with a pronounced rounded lipThis effigy pipe appears to be quite an old one, with great deepening to the color of the clay where it was clearly very often held. I love the serene looking, moon like face at the front, and then these wonderful little arms and legs incised into the sides, which make it seems look as if a creature of the water, ready to paddle its way across river or sea. I am not an expert but am confident it is Native American, and, based on the color and surface,