Pipe

Item number 1003/6 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Horizontal pipe with a T-shaped bowl carved from red stone with a long, black, wooden stem and a protruding mouthpiece. Stem features two short rows of metal tacks at both ends along either side of a groove carved up the stem's centre. Two small white stickers affixed to the stem.

Narrative

Stickers affixed to the stem say the pipe once 'belonged to Chief Whitecap of the Sioux reserve near Dundurn'. Chief Wapahaska, also known as Chief Whitecap, was one of the Dakota chiefs who led his people north, c. 1880, to settle in the area now known as the Whitecap Dakota First Nation.