Dakota pipestone pipe bowl and wood stem

Titles: Dakota pipestone pipe bowl and wood stem (Supplied title)

Description: A Dakota pipe circa the early 20th century or ealier. The pipe has an elbow style, mottled pipestone bowl (A) and flat wood stem (B) with squared edges and has two longitudinal cutout sections extending to one end. The stem is decorated with porcupine-quill wrapping, bird-skin pelts and tied red ribbon. The quill colors are black, white, purple, yellow, blue and green. The wood stem inscribed with pen and ink, written in script, reads: "Presented to Mrs. Whipple/ by Wicanhpi-Duta (Red Star) David Wells,/ Birch Coulee, 1902."

Dates

• Approximately 1902 (Presented to Mrs. Whipple by Wicanhpi-Duta (Red Star) David Wells, Birch Coulee, 1902.) (Use)

Creation

• received by: Whipple, Evangeline Marrs Simpson
• presented by: Wells, David
• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1799.A,B

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

• 3 5/8 inches height (1799.A, bowl, overal)l
• 7 3/8 inches length (1799.A, bowl)
• 1 1/4 inches diameter (1799.A, bowl, greatest diameter)
• 18 1/2 inches length (1799.B, stem)
• 2 1/4 inches width (1799.B, stem, greatest width)

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