Penn Museum to Repatriate Sacred Pipe to Northern Arapaho Tribe
October 16, 2026
October 16, 2026
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (TNSFR) -- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, intends to repatriate a sacred pipe to the Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming.
The pipe comprises a red catlinite bowl and a wooden stem associated with Chief Black Coal, an important Northern Arapaho leader and pipe keeper who lived from approximately 1839 to 1893.
The pipe was given to U.S. Army Lieutenant Patrick Henry Ray fol . . .
The pipe comprises a red catlinite bowl and a wooden stem associated with Chief Black Coal, an important Northern Arapaho leader and pipe keeper who lived from approximately 1839 to 1893.
The pipe was given to U.S. Army Lieutenant Patrick Henry Ray fol . . .