Title
Medicine pipe
Caption
Medicine pipe, It was kept in a medicine pipe bundle which was opened for tribal benefit at the first sound of thunder in spring and again before the onset of winter. This is the Blackfoot Thunders Pipe which came as a gift from Thunder and was said to protect the tribe from enemies and sickness. USA. Plains Indian, Blackfoot.
Info+
Werner Forman Archive/ Plains Indian Museum, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming USA
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Reference
UMG12A25_446
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
34,4Mb (2,5Mb) / 11,7in x 11,5in / 3500 x 3436 (300dpi)