Spirit of Peace Indian Museum

Dakota Cultural & Educational Center

Dakota Owned & Operated

The next pages show some of the items that are on display in the Museum

Next some of the Pipes :

All of these pipes are photographed resting on a slab of Catlinite
A lip pipe that was packed safely away for travel. This pipe is about 1" x 1"
This pipe doesn't need a stem it is smoked through the small shank

A large Plains pipe made in the 1950's This is in direct contrast to the previous lip pipe. The bowl is large 8" x 4" and the stem is 16"
The bowl alone filled with sage.
This is an unusual pipe it is old and the tip is broken off. It measures about 8" long. This is a very well worked bowl design wise.
Both sides of the pipe have an ornamentation of a pecked in design. It is a very thin bowl 1/2" at the widest part.

This partially cut piece of Catlinite looks like it could be the same design as the pipe bowl above. However it was never finished and just left on the prairie where it was found a few years ago.

We often wonder why it was never completed although we believe that the carver must have dropped it by accident because why would a large piece of Catlinite, that was so hard to obtain, be discarded. native Americans would never waste such a large piece of stone.

This contemporary pipe has eagle claws on it. It is very well polished and was crafted by a Canadian
This eagle pipe bowl was crafted by Chuck Derby, he has used the coloring in the stone to give the eagle a lighter color head and a pattern on the wings.
This is what we call the 'Buddy Pipe" as it was found by Buddy Moen at the powwow grounds in 2000. It is a blank that has been cut with stone tools so it is very old.
You can see on this photo how the stone tool work was done. First the crafter would cut down a short way with the piece of stone and would then cut down from the opposite side as far as he could, then he would knock the middle piece out. You can see the roughness of the center part where it was not cut.
This is a very unusual and pretty pipe bowl and stem. Made from spotted Catlinite the stem fits snugly into the bowl.
The sculpture of the stone is very neatly done in a spiral all along the bowl and continuing on the stem. It is highly polished with beeswax.
This buffalo bowl was crafted by the late Jack Crow. he used spotted Catlinite to create this work of art.
Another Buffalo effigy pipe bowl made by the late Jeff Derby (Little Feather)
This is a pipe from the 50's created by the late Harvey Derby. His stems were normally gently arched as this one is.
This bowl was crafted by Jeff Derby, (Little Feather) his design of the spiral four winds and notched prow was unique to him.

 

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