Early Indian Objects and Baskets


Blocked-end tubes, East Machias, ca. 550 BCE

Blocked-end tubes, East Machias, ca. 550 BCE
Item 23448   info
Maine Historical Society

This tube probably was used for smoking tobacco. It was excavated in East Machias in the 1860s.



The tube is made of a stone found only in Ohio and provides important evidence of an early trade network between Maine and western Indians.

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