Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Hunkpapa Lakota Search this
Object Type:
Pipe / Pipe Bag
Place:
Grand River Agency, Corson County / Grand River Agency, Dakota Territory / South Dakota, United States, North America
Accession Date:
1874
Notes:
IN 1996 THERE WAS A PIPE STEM FOUND NUMBERED BOTH 13635 AND 21486. AS BEST AS WE CAN DETERMINE, THE CORRECT NUMBER SEEMS TO BE 13635, AND THAT IS THE WAY THE STEM HAS BEEN TAGGED. IT IS POSSIBLE THE SAME ARTIFACT WAS CATALOGUED TWICE? THE CATLINITE PIPE BOWL #13635 ALSO HAS A WRONG NUMBER OF 1762 ON IT. - F. PICKERING 3-20-1996.
FROM CARD: "PIPE, STEM, AND CASE. B. R. COWEN WAS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, AND LED A COMMISSION TO VISIT THE SIOUX IN 1872, AT WHICH TIME HE HELD A COUNCIL WITH THE INDIANS AT FORT PECK, AND VISITED A NUMBER OF AGENCIES, INCL. GRAND RIVER. SEE: REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, 1872, PP. 456-463 (TWO SEPERATE REPORTS). "AN INDIAN PIPE OF PEACE SMOKED AT THE GREAT COUNCIL OF THE GRAND RIVER AGENCY BY THE UMPAPA SIOUX." STEM NOT LOCATED 6/1978. INVENTORIED 1978."