An Omaha Catlinite Pipe Bowl

with short shank of rounded square section perforated with a broad drill-hole, pinched prow and exaggerated disc-form bowl; pierced on the underside, perhaps for attachments.

Please see Paper, Offering Smoke, The Sacred Pipe and Native American Religion, Moscow, 1988, pl. VIII, figs. 28-31, for related and other examples of disc pipeheads; p. 75 for an explanation of their symbolic meaning as representational of the sun and/or earth.