PIPE: VERTICAL,

DOS PUEBLOS, NORTH OF SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA

Height:  2 ¾” 

Rim Width: 1 ½”

Weight:  8.5 oz

 A “Vertical” pipe was recently acquired from a local resident near the ancient site of Dos Pueblos.

 Dos Pueblos a prehistoric Chumash village site north of Goleta, Santa Barbara over the years has continuously revealed a remarkable array of stone tools from the sandy cliffs.  The currently listed pipe was acquired several decades ago by a local collector beach combing at the base of the two cliffs.

According to the long term, original resident, the pipe came from the MIKIW village (the northwestern hillside), not far from the central stream.

 The Dos Pueblos region was the home of two distinctive CHUMASH people.   They co-existed on either side of a small, flowing stream.  For thousands of years these people hunted, fished and lived in tiny straw homes that, according to an early explorer, looked like upturned oranges.

Today, the two remnant hills are still there but occasionally, like after a major winter storm, small, buried artifacts are exposed and fall to the ocean.

It has weathered a good amount of time buried beneath the local soil.  Many dings abrasion scratches and chinks are quite visible.

Users of this type of pipe would loosely pack it with smoking material and then begin to light it.  Long, deep inhalations through an access straw would eventually mix air with the burning embers allowing the user to inhale much infused vapor.

Slight dings, chinks, extraction pecking marks and non-threatening micro scratch lines.