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  • Collection: Pipestone, Minnesota: Home of “The Peace Pipe”

HiawathaPageantPipestone.jpg
Dramatic Final Scene from Pipestone Hiawatha Pageant, where hero Hiawatha departs towards the setting sun in an Enchanted Canoe, leaving his people in the hands of the "Black Robe" missionaries.

http://people.carleton.edu/~levittl/omeka/Pipestone/PipestoneQuarry1894.jpg
Pipestone quarry, at the town of Pipestone, Minnesota in 1894. In the center with white gloves Big Thunder (John Wakerman), a Santee Sioux

http://people.carleton.edu/~levittl/omeka/Pipestone/Buffalopipe.jpg
Different Native American people carve sacred pipes from the pipestone quarries in Pipestone, MN. These pipes are used for spiritual as well as commercial use by different people.

http://people.carleton.edu/~levittl/omeka/Pipestone/Pipequarrypit.jpg
Pipestone quarry, at the town of Pipestone, Minnesota.

Quarriers.jpg
Quarriers pull out a piece of pipestone.

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Harvey Derby polishes a pipestone pipe

http://people.carleton.edu/~levittl/omeka/Pipestone/CatlinQuarryPipestone.jpg
George Catlin's painting of the pipestone quarries in Minnesota in 1836

http://people.carleton.edu/~cborn/omeka/Pipestone_Minnesota/PM_TravisEriksonOnPipes.mp3
Erikson on the Awakening of his Pipe: