Our preliminary work has shown it to be highly accurate in identifying such pipestones as catlinite, Sterling pipestone, and Missouri flint clay. |
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The most recent and public difference of opinion over sacredness occurred just this summer, and it concerned a substance called pipestone. |
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Various analyses of numerous Havana Hopewell platform pipes from Illinois revealed most to be made of Elkhorn Creek pipestone. |
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A similar situation exists with the Mississippian figurines of flint clay that are often misidentified as bauxite or pipestone. |
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Nineteen pieces of red stone identified as possible Barron County pipestone or Minnesota catlinite were found at the Fred Edwards site in Grant County. |
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The rose-colored stone known as catlinite or pipestone comes from a quarry in Minnesota and was looked upon as symbolic of living flesh and blood and so sacred. |
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