Hi Phil,

Thanks for answering Barb. I am so glad you think it is so peaceful, because I listen to the music, see all there beautiful ways they dressed, and theie wonderful ways. I just wish they would dress in their native clothes, but I guess a lot of them don't really know much about their ancestry, because of being taken away from it so many years ago.

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Hi Myrna
I love to listen to the drums and look at my father's Indian work, makes me feel like they are still here.
Here are some of the Art that my father and brother Karl made and sold back to the Indians made out of Pipe Stone. and they got the Pipe Stone. In Pipe Stone MN That's the name of the Stone also.These are mine from my father and Karl.He was a Indian and just the Indians could get the pipe stone.

Hi Karen,
You have a real treasure. Wow, I never heard of Pipe stone, thank you for the information and bringing them to my forum. I have a few arrow heads my grandfather found and I treasure them, so I can only imagine how you must feel with these cravings.
Hugs and blessings,
Myrna
Here are some drumming. I love it

Hi Myrna
This is about the stone my father got.an it is valuable

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Native American Ceremonial Peace Pipe Stone Buckskin Beaded Frog Pipe ( ONE OF A KIND ) 0777-253727-NC

Native American Ceremonial Peace Pipe Stone Buckskin Beaded Frog Pipe

Hand carved by Navajo Peace Pipe carver Tom Joe. This Genuine Pipe Stone Ceremonial Indian Pipe is of a very high quality. The bowl of this incredible peace pipe is masterfully hand-carved out of genuine Pipe Stone by Navajo Indian artist Tom Joe. The impressive Frog bowl appears on a hand-made pipe that was wrapped in genuine Buckskin. This Peace Pipe also features plenty of genuine feathers, trade beads, and some intricately hand-stitched seed bead work. The pipe also features a generous portion of long buckskin leather fringe and a buckskin medicine bag for extra detail. This incredible peace pipe artifact is 28-1/4" long. You will receive the one-of-a-kind peace pipe pictured below.

The term Peace Pipe is a white man's term, and were called Calumets by the Native Americans, named after Calamus...the "stalk" or "reed." It is properly referred to as the Sacred Pipe. The pipe bowl commonly was carved from hard wood, molded from clay or carved from red pipestone called Catlinite. Other stones such as Sandstone, Soapstone, hard stones such as Granite, Quartzite and Steatite were also used. The Peace Pipe has long been known by the White Man as a token of peace and treaties...to seal an agreement. Probably, though no person knows for sure, the first time the "peace pipe" term was used was when a peace treaty was being signed. The pipe would have been used to seal the bargain and the white man would likely have referred to it as a pipe of peace. There are Calumets for sacred and ceremonial purposes, and public arrangements. The Sacred Pipe is not generally used for public gatherings. Intentions could often be told by how the stem was carved or decorated with feathers when smoked. Both Bowl and Pipe designs may be simple or elaborate, and may be carved from stone, horn, antler, bone or wood.

Navajo carver Tom Joe carves the pipestone bowls for this pipe while the rest of the pipe is being done by varying artists at a trading post down the street. We understand the true value and nature of hand crafted Indian art. And, we recognize it's important to know that the artist is truly a member of a Native American tribe. So, to ensure you that this is the real deal, a Certificate of Authenticity has been included with this item.

CERTIFIED AUTHENTIC

as you can see the pipe stone is the same color as my fathers , because it came from the same place.

A common material for calumet pipe bowls is red pipestone or catlinite,^[2] a fine-grained easily-worked stone of a rich red color of the Coteau des Prairies, west of the Big Stone Lake in South Dakota. The pipestone quarries have traditionally been neutral ground among warring tribes, as people from multiple nations journeyed to the quarry to obtain the sacred pipestone.^[2]

A type of herbal tobacco or mixture of herbs was usually reserved for special smoking occasions, with each region's people using the plants that were locally considered to have special qualities or a culturally condoned basis for ceremonial use.

Some northern Sioux people used long, stemmed pipes for ceremonies while others such as the Catawbas in the southeast used ceremonial pipes formed as round, footed bowls with a tubular smoke tip projecting from each cardinal direction on the bowl.

[edit] Ceremonial use

Hi Karen,