Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8810034

Category: Pipe Bowls-Pipe Stems

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Santee

Period: 1850-1875 - ca. 1865

Materials: Catlinite; lead.

Description: Funnel shaped bowl with lead inlay of circular bands and buffalo tracks; similar inlaid designs on base. Two articulated figures carved on base. A superb and rare Pipe Bowls-Pipe Stems.

Dimensions: Length 7.25 inches 18.4 cm; Height 3.25 inches 8.2 cm.

Provenance:

Andre Nasser Collection
Alexander Gallery
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:

Penny, David W., Native American Art Masterpieces, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Detroit, 1996, pp 36-37
Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 46

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