Catlinite, also called pipestone, is a type of argillite (metamorphosed mudstone), usually brownish-red in color, which occurs in a matrix of Sioux Quartzite...

traditionally made of either clay or a soft stone (such as steatite or catlinite). It was used popularly in India in the eighteenth century and still often...

used for ceremonial pipe bowls in the Upper Midwest is red pipestone or catlinite, a fine-grained easily worked stone of a rich red color of the Coteau...

where all tribal nations could quarry stone for ceremonial pipes. The catlinite, or "pipestone", is traditionally used to make ceremonial pipes. They...

some indigenous American nations are often carved from red pipestone or catlinite, a fine-grained easily worked stone of a rich red color of the Coteau...

Catlinite Inlayed Pipe Bowl with Two Faces, early 19th century, Sisseton Sioux...

Protohistoric Catlinite pipe bowl, probably Ioway, from the Wanampito site....

Haida carvers continue the tradition. Mudrock – Type of sedimentary rock Catlinite – Type of metamorphosed mudstone Lutite – Old terminology for clayey sedimentary...

triangle, a piece of laboratory equipment, typically made from this material Catlinite or Pipestone, found in Sioux Quartzite deposits in the upper midwestern...

as cherry, olive, maple, mesquite, oak, and bog-wood. Minerals such as catlinite and soapstone have also been used. Pipe bowls are sometimes decorated...

within a hydraulic press to squeeze the carbonaceous sample held in a catlinite container, the finished grit being squeezed out of the container into...

Region, in southwest Minnesota Pipestone Creek (Big Sioux River tributary) Catlinite, a type of red, carvable rock used by Native Americans for pipes and effigies...

side of the North American craton. In human history, it provided the catlinite, or pipestone, that was used by the Plains Indians to carve ceremonial...

man to see the Minnesota pipestone quarries, and pipestone was named catlinite. Catlin exaggerated various features of the site, and his boastful account...

Quartzite from a quarry in Jasper, Minnesota. Previously it was thought to be Catlinite/Pipestone, which is prized by Native Americans, primarily those of the...

1937 281.78 acres (1.1 km2) 73,267 This monument preserves traditional catlinite quarries used to make ceremonial pipes, vitally important to traditional...

nearby is known as "the crossroads of the Indian world." The soft red catlinite from the quarry has been used by American Indians for thousands of years...

(French and Spanish coins, glass trade beads), and ceremonial items (catlinite fragments from the bowl of a ceremonial pipe.). The town was constructed...

Rock Creek State Park in Minnesota. Within the quartzite are deposits of catlinite, a softer mineral essential to many Native American groups to make ceremonial...

southwestern Minnesota, near Pipestone, Minnesota, site of quarrying for catlinite, also known as "pipestone", used by Plains Indians to make ceremonial...

modern tourism. Archaeologists believe native peoples discovered the catlinite deposit at Pipestone over 3,000 years ago. Word of its existence spread...

linoleum paper (e.g. papier mache) rubber vegetable ivory wood bauxite catlinite cinnabar coal enamel glass gypsum (a.k.a. plaster of Paris) marcasite...

pines." Pipestone County Minnesota Named for the presence of pipestone (catlinite) in its rocks. Piscataquis County Maine The Piscataquis River, from an...

metamorphosed mudstone named catlinite. Pipestone, Minnesota is the site of historic Native American quarries of catlinite, which is more commonly known...

pipe. It usually consists of a hollow wooden stem attached to a catlinite bowl. Catlinite is quarried from near Pipestone, Minnesota; the Lakota term this...

From here, they moved on and found the catlinite quarry.: 36  The people found the red, workable catlinite in the area. They made the head to a sacred...

National Monument preserves traditional catlinite quarries just north of Pipestone, Minnesota. The catlinite, or "pipestone", was and is used to make...

statues. Alabaster stone carving is popular among Western tribes, where catlinite carving is traditional in the Northern Plains and fetish-carving is traditional...

tribes before them, created intricate pipes out of the claystone called "Catlinite" in the Buffalo Ridge area, which are displayed at Pipestone National...

believed to be protective amulets, from bone, wood, and stone, including catlinite. Iroquois artists have carved ornamental hair combs from antlers, often...