Pipestone tablet

Titles: Pipestone tablet (Supplied title)

Description: A parallelogram pipestone tablet, possibly Dakota, inscribed with Bible verses (Matthew 5:46 and 18:3) in script, in Dakota, circa the late 19th to mid-20th century. It reads, "Matthew 5:46: Tona waste ni dapi, Kin hena waste wi cayadapi kin." A letter of Verna Goodthunder, of Morton, Minnesota dated March 27, 1939, to Miss Kern Bayliss reads in part, "Am sending you my father's name and translation of the verse. Name: Charles Whipple Goodthunder; Translation of those words: Matthew 5:46 'For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the Publicans the same?"

Dates

• Approximately 1939 (Date of letter mentioning inscription of object) (Creation)

Creation

• used by: Good Thunder, Charles Whipple
• about: Good Thunder, Verna Sarah
• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1580

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 2 3/8 inches height
• 5 3/8 inches width (at longest angle)
• 1/4 inches depth

Subjects

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