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FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM BLOCK OF CLAY SLATE."Argillite clay-type portrait pipe; human figure with bone head sitting on stem behind bowl.It may be presumed that this object was probably collected by Dr. John Evans during his surveying in Oregon and Washington Territories and Vancouver Island, 1851-1852 or 1853-1856?
Object has an old museum tag that says: "For Trial Chilkat Group." The assumption is that this means the object was at one time intended for use on an early 20th century Smithsonian exhibit mannequin representing a Chilkat Tlingit person.
From card: "Represents Jonah and the whale? Of gray slate blackened with plumbago. Carving represents a whale with human being in interior."Note: the term "plumbago" has been used for a variety of substances. In the past it was often used as the common term for the mineral graphite, which may be its meaning here.