Antique Blackened Red Clay Pipe Bowl with Face folk art relief carved portrait and with an old piece

and with an old piece of hardened bubble gum stuck to the bottom

which the other bees would eat through to release the queen once she had been accepted into the hive

and many years of use left in it

care and attention to fine detail

Antique Blackened Red Clay Pipe Bowl with Face folk art relief carved portrait and with an old pieceI 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