Pipe bowl and pipestem
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1880
name: label: Culture/People
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
label: Previous owner
content: Chief Red Cloud (Makhpiya-luta [Scarlet Cloud]/Mahpina Luta), Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux), 1822-1909
label: Previous owner
content: Goyathlay (Geronimo/Guyiatle), Chiricahua Apache, ca. 1825-1909
label: Collector
content: Major Eugene Bonfils McDonald (Eugene B. McDonald), Non-Indian, 1870-1934
label: Previous owner
content: Frederick W. Skiff (Frederick Woodward Skiff/F.W. Skiff), Non-Indian, 1868-1947
label: Seller
content: Frederick W. Skiff (Frederick Woodward Skiff/F.W. Skiff), Non-Indian, 1868-1947
notes: label: Collection History
content: Said to have been owned by Red Cloud (Oglala Lakota, 1822-1909) and presented to Goyathlay (Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache, ca. 1824-1909) during his captivity at Mount Vernon, Alabama; collected from Goyathlay by Major Eugene Bonfils McDonald (1870-1934, then a private in Company B of the Fifth U. S. Infantry and later a major in the U.S. Signal Corps); given to Frederick W. Skiff (1868-1947, a Portland, Oregon, accountant and antiquarian) by Major Bonfils at an unknown date; purchased by MAI from Frederick Skiff in 1925.
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place: label: Place
content: South Dakota; USA (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
label: See related items
content: Pipes and Smoking
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 13/8020
label: Barcode
content: 138020.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipes and Smoking
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Pipe bowl and pipestem
label: Media/Materials
content: Catlinite/pipestone, wood, glass bead/beads, horsehair, sinew, paint
label: Techniques
content: Carved, bead-wrapped, painted
label: Dimensions
content: 74 x 4 x 35 cm