Object Details
- Collection History
- Formerly owned by Chief Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotanka, Hunkpapa Lakota, ca. 1831-1890); purchased after Sitting Bull's death from his widow by Indian Agent James McLaughlin; subsequently acquired by T. S. Lowe at an unknown date; purchased from the T. S. Lowe estate by William M. Fitzhugh (1853-1929, a San Francisco collector) at an unknown date; purchased by MAI from the estate of William M. Fitzhugh in 1936.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
- Previous owner
- Chief Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotanka/Tatanka Yotanka), Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux), ca. 1831-1890
- Collector
- Major James McLaughlin, Non-Indian, 1842-1923
- Previous owner
- Major James McLaughlin, Non-Indian, 1842-1923
- T. S. Lowe, Non-Indian
- William M. Fitzhugh (William MacPherson Fitzhugh), Non-Indian, 1853-1929
- Seller
- Estate of William M. Fitzhugh
- Object Name
- Pipe bowl and pipestem
- Media/Materials
- Catlinite/pipestone, wood, porcupine quills, horsehair
- Techniques
- Quill-wrapped (braided)
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
