Pipe Stem

45-15-1461

From: Great Plains (Plain)

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-1461
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Pawnee (uncertain)
Provenience Great Plains (Plain)
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Quill | Hair | Feather | Pigment
Description

Flat calumet. Proximal end quilled: natural with bars of red and green and with small blue dots; traces of dyed horsehair and feathers. Other end with deeply incised decoration painted red, blue, green, orange: warrior, diamond-shaped, two discs, rectangle with X and band of diamonds.

Length 85.3 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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