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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 ...
Pipestone National Monument is located in southwestern Minnesota, just north of the city of Pipestone, Minnesota. It is located along the highways of U.S. Route 75 , Minnesota State Highway 23 and Minnesota State Highway 30 .
The pipe stands on the grounds of the historic Rock Island Railroad depot near the entrance to Pipestone National Monument, home to the Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipemakers. The location of the giant peace pipe is significant; the pipestone quarry nearby is known as "the crossroads of the Indian world."
This acorn pipe is made from South Dakota red pipestone. Catlinite is an iron-rich, reddish, soft argillite or claystone typically excavated from beds occurring between hard Sioux Quartzite layers [ 17 ] below groundwater level, as the stone erodes rapidly when exposed to the weather and outside air.
The objects included 136 smoking pipes made of catlinite or pipestone. Ninety were effigy pipes sculpted in the shapes of animals, notably bears, wolves, dogs, beavers, cougars, otters, turtles, cranes, owls, herons, and hawks.
Pipestone The catlinite, or "pipestone", was and is used to make ceremonial pipes , vitally important to traditional Plains Indian culture. The quarries are sacred to the Dakota Sioux (Lakota) Native Americans , and are historically neutral territory where all tribes could quarry stone for ceremonial pipes.
Lt. Col. Brian Douty sat at a desk in a nondescript office, window blinds blocking the searing Middle East sun. Seven thousand miles away, his dad, Bob Douty, stood in the kitchen of the Pipestone ...
Pipestone is a city and the county seat of Pipestone County, Minnesota. The population was 4,215 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] The city is also the site of the Pipestone National Monument .