Santee Sioux (Eastern Dakota)
Pipe Head and Stem
Lakota Sioux, 1800-1899
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Santee Sioux (Eastern Dakota)
Pipe Head and Stem
Lakota Sioux, 1800-1899
Physical Qualities
Red catlinite; red catlinite and wood, 4 1/16 × 1 1/8 × 19 7/16 in. (10.3 × 2.9 × 49.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Richard W. Case, Sparks, Maryland
Object Number
1985.138a-b
Ralph Case (father-in-law- of donor) collected beginning probably in early 30s, perhaps earlier. Acted as attorney for the Sioux nation in suit against U.S. Government from 1932 to 1966. Was born on a Sioux reservation (c. 1880s/90s); son of a frontier sheriff. (Information from donor, 1984)
West, George A. 'Tobacco, Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Indians.' Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, vol. 17.
