Hair pipe

Hair pipe

A Hair Pipe is a term for a long narrow bead, more than 1.5 inches long, which were popular with American Indians.

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*" [http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/BAE/Bulletin164/tptoc.htm Hair Pipes Indian Adornment] " (1957) John C. Ewers Smithsonian Institution Libraries


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