Antique Blackened Red Clay Pipe Bowl with Face vintag 1990s poster With a hole at top

With a hole at top for hanging from a nail

like Coney Island

sturdily screwed on to the mother and/or to the base

Otherwise no chips

Antique Blackened Red Clay Pipe Bowl with Face vintag 1990s poster With a hole at topI know this blackened redware pipe bowl was found in Virginia and dates to the late 19th very early 20th century. I don't believe it is Native American, but think the face was meant to represent a Native American warrrior, with incised patterns crossing the cheeks to suggest war paint. To my eye, an extremely soulful face it is, with those marks reading equally as tears, and lowered eyes and pointy chin enhancing a sense of sorrow or mourning. There