Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708526

Category: Pipe Bowls-Pipe Stems

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Yankton

Period: 1850-1875

Materials: Catlinite; lead.

Description: Catlinite bowl with lead inlay circling the base and around the bowl using abstract designs.

Dimensions: Length 7.75 inches 19.7 cm; Height 4.25 inches 10.8 cm.

Provenance:

Jay Mahoney Collection
Lessard Collection- SD 536
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

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:

Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, Sale 4586Y, Lot 257, April 25, 1981
Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 91

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