Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8903133

Category: Pipe Bowls-Pipe Stems

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux

Period: 1875-1900

Materials: Catlinite

Description: Stem carved in three segments of alternating horizontal and vertical planes. Pipe has two bands of lead inlay around top of bowl and raised crest on rear of shank. Old tag glued to stem reads Red Cloud's tobacco pipe. Bought from him at Bismark on the opening of the South Pacific railroad. (Indecipherable name).

Dimensions: Length 20.25 inches 51.4 cm; Height 2.75 inches 7 cm.

Provenance:

Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

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