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Fourth-generation Sioux pipe maker Travis Erickson specializes in eagle-head effigy pipes like this striking example, carved from sacred pipestone the artist himself quarries. (Courtesy of David Rambow and Erica Volkir)
Courtesy of David Rambow and Erica Volkir