Pipe Stem

45-15-1458

From: Great Plains (Plain)

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-1458
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Plains Indian
Provenience Great Plains (Plain)
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Pigment | Quill | Hair | Feather
Description

Flat, tapering calumet. Painted green with white-marked red serpents. Proximal half wrapped with quilling, white star and red figures on dark ground (most of quilling now missing). Traces of dyed horsehair and feathers.

Length 99.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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