Historic Photo Gallery of the Arikara Indian Tribe

Historic Photo Gallery of the Arikara Indian Tribe

1909 photo of an Arikara Indian medicine man with 7 sacred pipes.

1908 photo of an Arikara Indian girl.

Arikara Indian girl photographed in 1888 in Mandan, North Dakota

Arikara Indian chief Sitting Bear photographed in the plains of North Dakota in 1908.

1926 photo of "Charges Alone."

Lakota Sioux Indians Photographed with Ceremonial Pipes

Lakota Sioux Indians Photographed with Ceremonial Pipes

1867 photo of  Lakota Indians Medicine Bull, Iron Nation and Yellow Hawk. The man holding the pipe is Charles Picotte an Indian agent who was involved with the treaty with the Yanton Sioux in 1858.

1867 photo of Chief White Bull with pipe.

Another identical photo of Chief White Bull

1907 photo of Elk Head with ceremonial pipe bundle seen behind him.

Late 1800s photo of three Lakota Indians. Man on the left with a tomahawk and the right holding a ceremonial pipe.

Native American Art - Voice of the Water Spirits

Native American Art - Voice of the Water Spirits

The Voice of the Water Spirits

The curling smoke from the long-stemmed pipe breathes forth the flames of war or the pale quiet of peace. With his pipe he pacifies the elements. On festal occasions, or when the camp rejoices at the joys of harvest, the priest smokes his pipe, blowing the smoke first to the earth, then to the sky, to the north, the south, the east, and the west, in token of gratitude for the favour of the gods. With the pipe the Indian also seals his councils.

Omaha Sioux Indian Pipes

Smoking Paraphernalia.

Fig. 315.—Omaha calumet

The pipes in use among the Omaha are of three kinds: the sacred pipe (niniba waqube, mysterious pipe), including the war pipes and those used by the chiefs in making peace; the niniba weawaⁿ or calumet (illustrated in figure 315), used in the calumet dance or dance of adoption,1 and the hatchet pipe or maⁿzepe niniba, introduced since the coming of the white man. One form of the pipe used on ordinary [Tobacco pouches (niniújiha) were made of deer or antelope skin, and were ornamented with porcupine quills or a fringe of deerskin. Sometimes buffalo bladders were used for this purpose. The women used them as receptacles for their porcupine quills.

occasions is shown in figure 316. This pipe has a bowl of catlinite, and the stem is decorated with horsehair.

Fig. 316.—Omaha pipe used on ordinary occasions.

See "Omaha Sociology," Third Ann. Rept. Bur. Ethnology, chap. vi.