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Minnesota catlinite is buttery smooth and can be cut with a regular hacksaw or even a knife. It comes out of the ground a pinkish color often with a cream layer protecting it from the hard quartzite. It is weaker and more subject to breaking under stress than Utah pipestone. Most catlinite deposits
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exist beneath the level of groundwater or are in deep enough layers where the soil is constantly moist as the iron compounds which give catlinite its red color quickly convert into iron oxides when exposed to the elements and the stone degrades and breaks down.
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defines it as "fine white kind of clay, which forms a ductile paste with water". It is traditionally used for all sorts of polishing and whitening purposes as well as for making
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A large range of pipestones exist, not just those in Minnesota, and numerous Native American tribes use a variety of materials in addition to catlinite for pipemaking.
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are different from those where the bowl is carved from solid pipestone and then fitted with a wooden stem (as is the case with Catlinite pipes).
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on the reservation, which the Ojibwa have used for centuries. The stone there is harder than the stone from Pipestone National Monument.
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Utah pipestone has a more variable range of hard and soft forms, since it occurs as layers between deposits of harder
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Native American, Plains (unidentified). Pipe Bowl representing Owl, early 20th century. Catlinite or pipestone, 3
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The Canadian quarry is no longer used, although there are quarries in Canada where another type of pipestone,
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In the United Kingdom, since the 17th century "pipe-clay" has meant a pale, whitish clay. The
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Geologic Formations, Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota, National Park Service
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Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
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who first wrote about the rock in 1832, noting that evidence indicated that
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The red catlinite from the Pipestone, Minnesota quarries is a soft
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are social smokers, and use molded clay pipes for this purpose.
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had been using the quarries since at least as far back as 1637.
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by J. T. Penman and J.N. Gundersen in the Plains Anthropologist
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use both the red and black stone for their sacred pipes.
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Protohistoric Catlinite pipe, probably late 17th century
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Pipestone Artifacts from Upper Mississippi Valley Sites
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Sigstad, John S. (1970) "A Field Test for Catlinite".
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visited the quarries in Minnesota in 1835; but it was
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Catlinite is often used to make the hollow tubes in
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