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The settlers initially used the word to refer to the hollow decorated pipe shaft alone while the pipe bowl was a separate ritual object, [7] a "sort of reeds used to make pipes", with a suffix substitution for calumel. [8] It corresponds to the French word chalumeau, meaning 'reed' (Modern French also means 'straw', 'blowlamp').
Andrew Thomas House, in Carroll County First Christian Church, designed by Eliel Saarinen, in Bartholomew County Jeffries Ford Covered Bridge, destroyed by fire in 2002 but still NRHP-listed, in Parke County State Bank of Indiana, Branch of (Memorial Hall), in Vigo County USS LST 325 (tank landing ship), Vanderburgh County St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, designed by Edward D. Dart, in Lake ...
The Indiana Historical Bureau has a home at the library. Founded in 1915 as the Indiana Historical Commission, its initial purpose was to prepare for the centennial of Indiana's statehood. The bureau largely concentrates on the placement of new historical markers across Indiana and encourages education in Indiana history. The bureau runs a gift ...
Joseph T. Taylor Hall was first constructed as part of the first academic buildings following the formation of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in 1969. Indiana University expanded its urban education offerings beyond the medical campus with the establishment of the University Quarter, which was the original site of ...
Northern Plains Beaded Pipe Bag c. 1870s The Sioux Quilled Pipe Bag at left is decorated with quillwork forming flora and fauna, buffalo and caterpillars. The "cocoon" design symbolizes spiritual and physical transformation, [ 1 ] and the Sioux spirit Yumni, the whirlwind, responsible for the four directions of the world.
The Indiana Historical Society (IHS) is one of the United States' oldest and largest historical societies.It describes itself as "Indiana's Storyteller". It is housed in the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center at 450 West Ohio Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, in The Canal and White River State Park Cultural District, neighboring the Indiana State Museum and the Eiteljorg Museum of ...
Catlinite, also called pipestone, is a type of argillite (metamorphosed mudstone), usually brownish-red in color, which occurs in a matrix of Sioux Quartzite. Because it is fine-grained and easily worked, it is prized by Native Americans , primarily those of the Plains nations , for use in making ceremonial pipes , known as chanunpas or ...
Fidelity Trust Building (Indianapolis, Indiana) Flanner House Homes; Fletcher Place; Calvin I. Fletcher House; Forest Hills Historic District (Indianapolis, Indiana) Fort Benjamin Harrison; Fort Harrison Terminal Station; Foster Hall (Indianapolis, Indiana) Benjamin Franklin Public School Number 36