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Pipe

Lakota Sioux, 1879-1889

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Lakota (Sioux)

Pipe

Lakota Sioux, 1879-1889

Physical Qualities Wood, catlinite, polychrome (a: wood; b: stone), 14 15/16 x 10 1/16 in. (38 x 25.6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. E. Ridgeley Simpson
Object Number 1941.202j
Spiral design, wooden handle.
Ex-collection Smithsonian Institution: collection of V.J. Evans.
Richard Conn, "Circles of the World: Traditional Art of the Plains Indians," Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1982, ill. 86-88, p. 147.
"The Old West: The Great Chiefs," Time-Life Books, 1975, p. 152-3.
George A. West, "Tobacco, Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Indians," Bulletin of the Public Museum of the city of Milwaukee, Vol. 17, p. 175, ill. 1

Inscribed: Inked on stem at mouth end: cat. 359697/Acc. 133.05 [?] /V. J. Evans/Sioux; Inked on socket end: 806

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