Museum Collections

This pipe was excavated by Reginald P. Bolton, William L. Calver, and others before the formation of the Field Exploration Committee in 1918, in Hut E on Payson Avenue at the British camp on the Dyckman farm, which extended between Seaman and Payson Avenues and 204th Street, in Washington Heights. The pipe was found inside of a hut built in 1776 by British soldiers on land that was once used as a campsite by Native Americans. Tobacco pipes could be sacred to Native Americans but were also made for trade with Europeans, especially soldiers. While this pipe was made by a Native American, it was not necessarily used by one.