Collector's Guide to Indian Pipes Identification and Values

  • Author(s): Lar Hothem
  • Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art
  • Publisher: Collector Books
  • Publish year: 1999
  • ISBN: 9781574320862
  • Number of Pages: 308

Even someone only casually knowledgeable about North American Indian artifacts is likely to be aware of pipes. Along with tipis and canoes and moccasins, pipes were (and are) basic to many Native American lifeways. Indians are thought to be the first people in the world to make and use instruments for smoking various substances including tobacco , and pipe use extended for more than 3,000 years.

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Table of Contents:

COVER

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

HOW PIPES WERE MADE

CATLINITE PIPES

STEATITE PIPES

PIPESTONE PIPES

PIPE MATERIALS

POTTERY PIPES

TYPES OF INDIAN PIPES

EFFIGY PIPES

GREAT PIPES

PLAINS INDIAN PIPES

CHEROKEE PIPES

IROQUOIS PIPES

MIC-MAC PIPES

DISC PIPES

TUBULAR PIPES

WEST COAST PIPES

MISSISSIPPIAN PIPES

OTHER INDIAN PIPES

PIPE FACTS

PIPE FINDS

PIPE-TOMAHAWKS

TRADE PIPES

COLLECTING PIPES - WHAT TO LOOK FOR

FAKE PIPES - WHTA TO LOOK OUT FOR

LEARNING MORE ABOUT PIPES