Olla
Santo Domingo, New Mexico
"Before talking of holy things, we prepare ourselves by offerings . . . one will fill his pipe and hand it to the other who will light it and offer it to the sky and earth . . . they will smoke together. Then they will be ready to talk."
Mato-kuwapi or Chased by Bears, Santee-Yanktonai Dakota
ca.1900
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, acc. 89.7.44
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