Maryland Archeology Month

-April 2009-

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Red clay tobacco pipe

This object is a red clay tobacco pipe bowl. It is decorated with an incised depiction of some type of animal, possibly a deer or other quadruped. This style of pipe was made by the local American Indians and traded to the colonists. The decoration is created by using a serrated, fossil sharks tooth like a rocker stamp. The resulting dashed incisions are then filled with a contrasting, white colored clay.