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Title
[Red Pipe Stone Quarry]
Creator
Catlin, George, 1796-1872
Date Created and/or Issued
1848
Publication Information
London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Plates in: Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : in a series of letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing. : with three hundred and sixty engravings, from the author's original paintings / by Geo. Catlin, Vol. 2, plate 151, no. 270.
Shows cliffs and prairie located on edge of Coteau des Prairie (the divide between the Mississippi and Missouri drainage on the north-central plains). In foreground, Native Americans quarry stone.
Native Americans quarried red catlinite here for use in creating their smoking pipes. Site is currently Pipestone National Monument.
2010-6725GEN.
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print : lithograph, col. ; image 4 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. on page 9 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001485787CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Indians of North America--Minnesota--Pictorial works
Stone quarrying--Minnesota
Pipestone National Monument (Minn.)--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Landscape prints
Place
Minnesota
Pipestone National Monument (Minn.)

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