Pipe cérémonielle - Calumet
Amérique du Nord, Plains
Vendu
300 €
Provenance
Christian Pysik, Aachen, GermanyTaille
L: 70 cm
L: 27.6 inch
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.