Catlinite, also called pipestone, is a type of argillite (metamorphosed mudstone), usually brownish-red in color, which occurs in a matrix of Sioux Quartzite...
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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...
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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...
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where all tribal nations could quarry stone for ceremonial pipes. The catlinite, or "pipestone", is traditionally used to make ceremonial pipes. They...
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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...
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Catlinite Inlayed Pipe Bowl with Two Faces, early 19th century, Sisseton Sioux...
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Protohistoric Catlinite pipe bowl, probably Ioway, from the Wanampito site....
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Haida carvers continue the tradition. Mudrock – Type of sedimentary rock Catlinite – Type of metamorphosed mudstone Lutite – Old terminology for clayey sedimentary...
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triangle, a piece of laboratory equipment, typically made from this material Catlinite or Pipestone, found in Sioux Quartzite deposits in the upper midwestern...
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as cherry, olive, maple, mesquite, oak, and bog-wood. Minerals such as catlinite and soapstone have also been used. Pipe bowls are sometimes decorated...
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within a hydraulic press to squeeze the carbonaceous sample held in a catlinite container, the finished grit being squeezed out of the container into...
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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...
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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...
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man to see the Minnesota pipestone quarries, and pipestone was named catlinite. Catlin exaggerated various features of the site, and his boastful account...
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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...
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1937 281.78 acres (1.1 km2) 73,267 This monument preserves traditional catlinite quarries used to make ceremonial pipes, vitally important to traditional...
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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...
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(French and Spanish coins, glass trade beads), and ceremonial items (catlinite fragments from the bowl of a ceremonial pipe.). The town was constructed...
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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...
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southwestern Minnesota, near Pipestone, Minnesota, site of quarrying for catlinite, also known as "pipestone", used by Plains Indians to make ceremonial...
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modern tourism. Archaeologists believe native peoples discovered the catlinite deposit at Pipestone over 3,000 years ago. Word of its existence spread...
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linoleum paper (e.g. papier mache) rubber vegetable ivory wood bauxite catlinite cinnabar coal enamel glass gypsum (a.k.a. plaster of Paris) marcasite...
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pines." Pipestone County Minnesota Named for the presence of pipestone (catlinite) in its rocks. Piscataquis County Maine The Piscataquis River, from an...
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metamorphosed mudstone named catlinite. Pipestone, Minnesota is the site of historic Native American quarries of catlinite, which is more commonly known...
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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...
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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...
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National Monument preserves traditional catlinite quarries just north of Pipestone, Minnesota. The catlinite, or "pipestone", was and is used to make...
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statues. Alabaster stone carving is popular among Western tribes, where catlinite carving is traditional in the Northern Plains and fetish-carving is traditional...
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tribes before them, created intricate pipes out of the claystone called "Catlinite" in the Buffalo Ridge area, which are displayed at Pipestone National...
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believed to be protective amulets, from bone, wood, and stone, including catlinite. Iroquois artists have carved ornamental hair combs from antlers, often...
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