Wood, deer bone plaques; bead (glass); wood; fiberexpand_more
The John R. Van Derlip Fund and the Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation; purchase from the Thomas Murray Collectionexpand_more 2019.20.41
This smoking kit consists of a tobacco box and pipe holder, to which a pipe would have once been attached. Prestige accessories of Ainu men, smoking kits were prominently carried on the belt; the pipe holder was tucked through the belt, leaving the box to dangle. Records show that when Ainu men met for the first time, they exchanged their kits for a smoke and to provide an opportunity to admire each other’s kit.
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