Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC9009005

Category: Pipe Bowls-Pipe Stems

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Santee

Period: 1825-1850

Materials: Catlinite; white glass seed beads; lead

Description: Effigy pipe with a human head forming the bowl and looking into the face of a second head located on the shank. Bands of lead inlay run around the top of men's hats and around rear end of shank.

Dimensions: Length 7 inches 17.8 cm; Height 3.25 inches 8.3 cm.

Provenance:

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 6061, Lot 237, September 25, 1990
Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 101

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