Pipe cérémonielle - Calumet ·  Amérique du Nord, 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.