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Collection: Warnock
Item Number: WC8308046
Category: Pipe Bowls-Pipe Stems
Region: Plains
Tribe: Sioux - Santee or Yankton
Period: 1850-1875
Materials: Catlinite
Description: Pipe with massive circular bowl having eagles (thunderbirds?) carved on opposite sides - One frontal view and the other in profile.
Dimensions: Length 7.25 inches 18.3 cm; Height 3.75 inches 9.5 cm.
Provenance:
Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.
Exhibitions:
Akicita, The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, May 17, 1983 - July 10, 1983
Splendid Heritage, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, February 10, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wy, May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2010
Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Mo, Febuary 12, 2010 - April 24, 2010
References:
Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 94
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