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Red Inlaid Double Pipe Bowl50.67.100e

Probably Eastern Sioux. Possibly made for trade as no evidence of use. This is a double pipe bowl made from red catlinite or pipestone with lead inlay at the pipe end and a serrated point at the bowl end.

Culture
Sioux and Chippewa
Material
catlinite and lead
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Red Pipe Bowl50.67.100d

Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Culture
Sioux and Chippewa
Material
catlinite
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Beaded HideX568

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Culture
Ute and Sioux
Material
deer skin and bead
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Inlaid Red Pipe Bowl and Stem50.67.100c

This is a fine red catlinite or red pipestone pipe bowl with red inlays around each end and a delicately tapered shape.

Culture
Sioux and Chippewa
Material
catlinite and lead
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Inlaid Red Pipe Bowl50.67.100b

Possibly made for trade and never used.This catlinite (pipestone) pipe bowl has been inlaid with lead in a scrollwork design.

Culture
Sioux and Chippewa
Material
catlinite and lead
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Pipe Bag32.2099.32549

Bequest of W.S. Morton Mead

Culture
Blackfoot and Sioux
Material
buckskin, seed bead, porcupine quill and metal
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Dance Staff50.67.94

Long staff with knobs along the handle. The top is a larger knob with a face engraved into one side. Similar staffs are used for Sioux Warrior Societies and there is a possibility this staff was used as such and is not Caddo but Sioux.

Culture
Sioux and Caddo
Material
wood and pigment
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Pipe Stem50.67.92

This is a long, wood pipe stem. Half way along it is straight and undecorated. In the center a decorated section of porcupine quills, horsehair and bird scalp preceeds a twisted form.

Culture
Sioux and Chippewa
Material
wood, porcupine quill, horse hair, bird scalp and buckskin
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Whistle with Carved Design of Long-beaked Water Bird50.67.91

This is a long, thin whistle with only one hole in the beak of a bird with metal tacks for eyes. The bird's head is carved at the end and painted blue-green on the outside and red on the inside. The nostril slits are also painted red. The stop is a piece of birch bark held in place with a sinew wrapping. Jarvis (the collector) original inscription reads, "Indian Flute Chippeway."

Culture
Chippewa and Sioux
Material
wood, birchbark, sinew, pigment and brass metal
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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War Chief's Carved Pipe Stem50.67.65

This is a flat pipe stem of the "trick" type. Geometrically shaped cutouts were made in the center of the stem and the un-initiated had to guess how the smoke traveled through it. Decorated with red and blue-green paint, it shows slash marks made with a hot metal file for added decoration.

Culture
Sioux and Chippewa
Material
wood and pigment
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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