emsenn on Nostr: A pipe from the Pawnee, made sometime prior to ~1919, when it was stolen. Last year ...

A pipe from the Pawnee, made sometime prior to ~1919, when it was stolen. Last year it got returned to the tribe.

The pipe shows a bear standing on its back legs, arms up, mouth open, facing a human... who's sitting down, looking more like a child listening to someone tell a story than someone being faced by a bear.