Pipe Stem

45-15-1453

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-1453
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Ash Wood | Pigment | Porcupine Quill | Sinew
Description

Flat calumet. Painted red tracks on blue ground. Proximal half, finely plaited quill wrapped in alternately red and natural bands with figures of men, etc. Traces of dyed horsehair and feathers.

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

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