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The Pipe Bowl Enigma
Pipe bowls found by the dozens at Flowerdew Hundred provide clues, but few definitive answers, about the interplay of cultures in 17th-century Virginia. The varied forms; peculiar, incised design motifs; and technologies of manufacture of these common artifacts incorporate English, Native American, and African attributes.
Were the makers of these pipes Native American, English, or African? Who used them? Do these artifacts represent an exchange of cultural forms, a segregation of culture, or the development of a unique colonial type? |