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“War and Peace Pipes. Commemoration and Remembrance” (''Pipes & Tobaccos'' magazine, Spring 2008) was my report about pipes of another era. In this story, I examine the history of the peace pipe and pipe of peace beyond the colloquial “Put that in your peace-pipe and smoke it.” This essay the whole what’s what about these two terms. | “War and Peace Pipes. Commemoration and Remembrance” (''Pipes & Tobaccos'' magazine, Spring 2008) was my report about pipes of another era. In this story, I examine the history of the peace pipe and pipe of peace beyond the colloquial “Put that in your peace-pipe and smoke it.” This essay the whole what’s what about these two terms. | ||
[[File:PeacePipe-2-politics-aberdeen-peace pipe-pipe of peace-russians-french-csl1837 low.jpg|thumb|This cartoon of Lord Aberdeen appeared in ''Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England'' (1921).]][[File:PeacePipe-3gettyimages-530859114-612x612.jpg|thumb|left|Courtesy, gettyImages.com]]As you might expect, the interpretations are many and varied. This cartoon of Lord Aberdeen appeared in ''Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England'' (1921).(right) | [[File:PeacePipe-2-politics-aberdeen-peace pipe-pipe of peace-russians-french-csl1837 low.jpg|thumb|This cartoon of Lord Aberdeen appeared in ''Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England'' (1921).]][[File:PeacePipe-3gettyimages-530859114-612x612.jpg|thumb|left|Courtesy, gettyImages.com]]As you might expect, the interpretations are many and varied. This cartoon of Lord Aberdeen appeared in ''Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England'' (1921). (see at right) | ||
Lord Aberdeen is not smoking a typical peace pipe and neither is this woman (on the left). The caption is “A Dutch Pipe of Peace” of the late 17th century.” It’s not Dutch and it’s not from the 17th or even the 18th century. It’s a 19th-century German wood Gesteckpfeife, and probably made as a trade sign for a tobacco shop. | Lord Aberdeen is not smoking a typical peace pipe and neither is this woman (on the left). The caption is “A Dutch Pipe of Peace” of the late 17th century.” It’s not Dutch and it’s not from the 17th or even the 18th century. It’s a 19th-century German wood Gesteckpfeife, and probably made as a trade sign for a tobacco shop. | ||
According to David Steel, this World War One, London-made clay pipe depicting Lord Kitchener, found on Scotland’s May National Nature Reserve in May 2022, is a peace pipe! Unlikely! | According to David Steel, this World War One, London-made clay pipe depicting Lord Kitchener, found on Scotland’s May National Nature Reserve in May 2022, is a peace pipe! Unlikely! (see bellow) | ||
[[File:PeacePipe-4-LordKitchener-Clay.webp|thumb|center| | [[File:PeacePipe-4-LordKitchener-Clay.webp|thumb|center|400px|Not likely a peace pipe! Courtesy, isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com]] | ||
This 19th-century, walrus-ivory pipe in the Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin College), attributed to the Iñupiat of Alaska, is catalogued as a peace pipe. Borrowing the title of René Magritte’s 1929 surrealist painting, “Cec i n’est pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”), I say: Ceci n’est pas une calumet de la paix! | This 19th-century, walrus-ivory pipe in the Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin College), attributed to the Iñupiat of Alaska, is catalogued as a peace pipe. Borrowing the title of René Magritte’s 1929 surrealist painting, “Cec i n’est pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”), I say: Ceci n’est pas une calumet de la paix! | ||