PIPE

Description: YELLOW-GOLD BOWL & DARK BROWN STEM. POT STYLE WITH DECORATED STEM. WILLOW STEM, CORK TIP, HORN LOCKRING, HORN MOUTHPIECE, HELD TOGETHER BY PURPLE RIBBON. MOUTH PIECE IS CHIPPED AND RIBBON IS FADED. MOUTH PIECE SCREWS INTO STEM.

History: *UPDATE* IN 2019, COLLECTIONS INTERN KIRSTAN SCHAMUHN CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF PERSONAL ARTIFACTS. ON 13 FEBRUARY 2019, SCHAMUHN INTERVIEWED ERNEST BRIERLY’S GRANDSON, WILLIAM IRWIN, REGARDING HIS GRANDFATHER’S PRIOR DONATIONS. THE INFORMATION BELOW HAS BEEN EXTRACTED FROM THAT INTERVIEW: ON HIS GRANDFATHER’S PIPE, IRWIN RECOUNTED: “HE ALWAYS HAD A PIPE…, BUT I CAN’T SAY THAT I EVER SAW HIM SMOKE THEM. HE PROBABLY SHOWED THEM TO ME WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY, BUT THAT’S ALL.” “HE ALWAYS HAD IT, AND MY DAD GOT MAD AT HIM BECAUSE WE WENT DOWN TO VISIT RELATIVES IN SPOKANE. WE WERE TRAVELING THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS IN THE SUMMERTIME, AND HE KEPT BANGING THE LOOSE TOBACCO ON THE SIDE OF THE CAR, AND DAD WAS AFRAID HE WAS GOING TO START A FOREST FIRE.” PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE P19683398000 FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING THE FULL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION AND COPIES OF ARTICLES REGARDING THE FAMILY HISTORY.