Sauk/ Fox(?), Iowa(?), long thin stem tapering to mouth piece and decorated with finely braided porcupine quills dyed in colors of red, blue, white, and black; hourglass imagery suggestive of thunderbird is detailed on both front and back; remnants of red pigment on stem, total length 34 in. ca 1800-1820 For similar examples see: 1934 West, George A. Tobacco, Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Indian, plate 183, fig. 1. 1973 Flint Institute of Art. Art of the Great Lakes Indians, pp 16, 18. Provenance: Ex Paul Gray New York
Sauk/ Fox(?), Iowa(?), long thin stem tapering to mouth piece and decorated with finely braided porcupine quills dyed in colors of red, blue, white, and black; hourglass imagery suggestive of thunderbird is detailed on both front and back; remnants of red pigment on stem, total length 34 in. ca 1800-1820 For similar examples see: 1934 West, George A. Tobacco, Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Indian, plate 183, fig. 1. 1973 Flint Institute of Art. Art of the Great Lakes Indians, pp 16, 18. Provenance: Ex Paul Gray New York
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