Vera L. Janis Herman, wife of Eddie Herman, holding Spotted Crow Pipe
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.3711 R
label: Local Note
content: Pipe used at Bear Buttes for prayer by Spotted Crow and Levi White Bull. Pipe given to Vera Herman, July 4, 1949 at ceremony on Porcupine Creek. Spotted Crow fasted and prayed for 3 days at Mato Paha (Bear Butte) also danced Sun Dance later, as token of thankfulness for the Great Spirit saving life of Levi White Bull. White Bull dying at Pine Ridge Hospital when Spotted Crow made vows to pray and dance. White Bull recovered. Pipe - red pipe-stone- porcupine quill decorated stem.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (5x7 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: JUL 20 1949
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Photographs