Pipe or Tobacco Bag

c. 1870 Overall: 71.1 x 12.7 cm (28 x 5 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.871

The shape of this bag indicates it was made to hold tobacco and one of the pipes that played a paramount role in the lives of Plains nations. Smoking is a means of prayer—the smoke carries thanks and entreaties into the other-than-human realm—and pipes were lit to seek protect...

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