pipestone

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Definition von pipestone im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A hard, red clay used by Native Americans for making tobacco pipes

Catlinite

{i} red clay that the North American Indians use to make smoking pipes

A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes

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Pipestone National Monument

National monument, southwestern Minnesota, U.S. Established in 1937, it has an area of 282 acres (114 hectares) and contains quarries of a reddish-coloured stone that was used by the Plains Indians to make ceremonial peace pipes. The stone is reserved for use by the Indians, who quarry it under special permits from the National Park Service. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow popularized the quarries in "The Song of Hiawatha

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pipe·stone