Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but said to have been collected between 1870 and 1880 from a Sioux Indian; formerly in the collection of Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin (1877-1952, a noted collector of books and Indian arts and founder of Northwest Airlines); purchased by George Heye from L.H. Brittin in 1906.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Sioux
- Previous owner
- Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin (Louis H. Brittin/L.H. Brittin), Non-Indian, 1877-1952
- Seller
- Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin (Louis H. Brittin/L.H. Brittin), Non-Indian, 1877-1952
- Object Name
- Pipe bowl and pipestem
- Media/Materials
- Catlinite/pipestone, wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
