Hodgson Collection. Prior to accessioning, the number 30 was printed in black ink on the bowl. Note from Hodgson's Smoke Rings book: "Lewis and Victor Hodgson were exploring a deserted Indian Hogan on the White Earth Reservation about 1932 and found this broken bone "squaw pipe." The stem is probably sumac which has had a bittersweet vine around it. I once spent a day interviewing several old times on the reservation trying to find the source of a soft grey stone often used for pipes. No on knew anything about it. Jimmy Madden told me that was where where it came from." Robert E. Hodgson (1893-1968) was superintendent of the Southern Experiment Station from 1919 to 1960. He promoted modern agricultural methods in Waseca and throughout Minnesota. From 1948 to 1964, Hodgson wrote a column for The Farmer Magazine, and his column “Bob Hodgson Talks” appeared in more than one hundred rural Minnesota newspapers for over 20 years. Hodgson was a member of the Waseca County Historical Society, the Waseca County Horse Thief Detectives, The Boy Scouts and other organizations. Among his many interests were history, nature study and pipe collecting. During World War II, Hodgson wrote a once a month letter to members of Boy Scout Troop 85 who were serving in the armed forces all over the world. The letters were published in the Waseca Journal with separate copies printed and mailed to any Waseca serviceman who wished to receive them. Hodgson’s letters maintained the home contacts, helped men keep up on the locations of friends and provided morale-boosting communications for those far away from home.
