Object Number | 63-8-49 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sioux |
Provenience | Dakotas (uncertain) |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Catlinite |
Description | Probably made with European tools. Hatchet shaped blade with bevelled edges. Short 8-sided stem with mid-section square and incised with cross-hatch. Short bowl also 8-sided; bands around top alternately has cross-hatch plane and plain one across it; bottom band has diagonally lined planes and plain one. Mid-section of bowl carved in elongated diamonds. Label says "Sioux pipe stone from Pipe stone quarry, Dakota". |
Length | 19.7 cm |
Width | 10 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Robert Pemberton, 1963 |
Other Number | L-260-49 - Old Loan Number |
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