Ceremonial pipe ·  North America, Plains · ID: 3043304

Description

wood, fabric, pipe stem, completely coated with strings of white miniature glass beads, red catlinite pipe bowl, carved with a tortoise, slight traces of usage.
The term catlinite came into use after the American painter George Catlin, who visited the quarries in Minnesota in the 1830s.

The object Ceremonial pipe with the object ID 3043304 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 110 achieved a sales price of EUR 300.

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