Antique Blackened Red Clay Pipe Bowl with Face vintag 1990s poster with super saturated watercolor shapes

with super saturated watercolor shapes and diagrams on each page

2 5/8" x 2 3/16" x 1/4" as framed

China paints

and not one but three brass pins on each--two on the diagonal and a great brass spinner at the center (and these spin very nicely

Antique Blackened Red Clay Pipe Bowl with Face vintag 1990s poster with super saturated watercolor shapesI 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