Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC9009004

Category: Pipe Bowls-Pipe Stems

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Santee or Yankton

Period: 1825-1850 - ca. 1840

Materials: Catlinite; white glass seed beads; silver

Description: Female effigy pipe, the figure of a woman in a sitting position forms the bowl, her legs resting on the shank. Seed bead eyes and silver arm bands.

Dimensions: Length 2.625 inches 6.7 cm; Height 2.375 inches 6.1 cm.

Provenance:

George Terasaki Collection
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

The Art Institute of Chicago, July 16-October 30, 1977

References:

Maurer, Evan M, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1977, pp 126, Fig133
Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, Sale 6061, Lot 236, September 25, 1990

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