Fifty years of deception unmasked

Original title: Vijftig jaar misleiding ontmaskerd

By Don Duco

Abstract: This article deals with imitation Indian pipes, that were exhibited in the Douwe Egberts Pipe-museum in Utrecht and the museum De Moriaan in Gouda, the Netherlands for over half a century and proved to be modern copies.

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© Don Duco, Pijpenkabinet Foundation, Amsterdam - Holland, 2003.

Illustrations

1. Hand moulded semi-tobacco pipe, the bowl shaped as a primitive human face. Red backed pottery. The Netherlands, 1938-1945.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 16.906

2. File card of the Douwe Egberts museum showing the description of a red stone Indian pipe from Central America.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet documentation

3. The permanent display in the museum De Moriaan in Gouda, central in the show case the copy of the Indian pipe.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet documentation

Notes

1. Dr. R. Westerhoff, Oudheidkundige verhandeling en aanteekeningen betrekkelijk de kleine rookpijpjes, waaruit, naar 't volk hier en daar gelooft, de reuzen, alven, feeën en aardmannetjes oudtijds gerookt zouden hebben, Groningen, 1860.

2. Joseph D. McGuire, Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Aborigines, Based on Material in the U.S. National Museum, Ellicot City, Maryland, 1898.

3. Het Vrije Volk, 03-11-1952. Under the photograph the date 1590.

4. ‘De Goudse pijpmakers hebben geen opvolgers’, NRC, 29-04-1961.