Wooden Pipe-Stem
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wrapped with braid of porcupine quill and tufted with horsehair. According to the tag this pipe is over 80 years old. It was in use in all the councils of the times when the Sioux tribe was at war with the U.S. and with other tribes. The pipe has been used by Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Young Man Afraid [Of His Horses] and other noted chiefs. It has been kept in the family of Young Man Afraid Of His Horses, an Oglala Sioux Chief, for many years. Benjamin Clown Horse being a grandson [sic, actually a nephew] of this chief."
label: Notes
content: Note: information on card about pipestem provenance is from an original typewritten tag with the artifact.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, South Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Oglala Lakota
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E359675-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe