Antique Blackened Red Clay Pipe Bowl with Face folk art relief carved portrait I might be as inclined

I might be as inclined to lay it on a tabletop with a piece of glass over it as to hang it on the wall

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proscribes a system of "Vertical Writing"

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Antique Blackened Red Clay Pipe Bowl with Face folk art relief carved portrait I might be as inclinedI 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