The lot features a large, Chief’s wooden pipe stem with fine quillwork from the Sioux dating to the 19th century from the ex-C.M. Russell Museum Great Falls, Montana and John Kleinschmidt collections. The piece is in nearly identical form to the Chief Red Cloud’s Personal wood stem sold by Heritage in 2016 ($18,060), with both showing a carved wood body tapering flat pipe with in-cut holding area which is artfully covered in fine quillwork and then flares out to a shouldered smoking tip with tapered end. The pipe has amazing fine porcupine quill quillwork with natural mineral colors of blue, red, yellow, green and purple with sinew wraps, plume or bird feather and skin, red dyed horse tail hair, a small square iron nail tack. The front of the pipe has a darker color from honest age and use, as does the smoking tip with half of the gripping area missing the quillwork showing a more bare wood. The quillwork has some slight repair to secure it. The shaft is marked in fountain pen which is not discernible. The pipe end is was at one point broken off into what would have been an artful catlinite pipe, which is long missing. Provenance: From the John Kleinschmidt collection which was on loan to the C.M. Russell Museum from 1987 to 1993 and included in the "The Cowboy West: 100 Years of Photography 1992-1993 exhibit. Catherine A. O'Dell. An attached museum tag reads, "1396-87 O'Dell". Measures overall 29-inches in length. This was on display at the C.M. Russell museum. A copy of the C.M. Russell Museum paperwork can be available at request.