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A PLAINS PICTORIAL BEADED HIDE PIPE
composed of a cylindrical wood stem, covered in hide, sinew sewn with various shades of opaque and translucent beads, decorated on one end with a spiraling band of small rectangles, three pairs of horse tracks and a band of rectangular elements on the other, trimmed with hide fringe and a pair of hide dangles, each wrapped with orange-dyed fiber and terminating in a dew claw and fiber pendant, inserted into a catlinite head, with six-sided prow and tall flaring bowl, one side inscribed, A Beniteau, Detroit; metal stand
Length: 26½ in. (67 cm.)
composed of a cylindrical wood stem, covered in hide, sinew sewn with various shades of opaque and translucent beads, decorated on one end with a spiraling band of small rectangles, three pairs of horse tracks and a band of rectangular elements on the other, trimmed with hide fringe and a pair of hide dangles, each wrapped with orange-dyed fiber and terminating in a dew claw and fiber pendant, inserted into a catlinite head, with six-sided prow and tall flaring bowl, one side inscribed, A Beniteau, Detroit; metal stand
Length: 26½ in. (67 cm.)