sacred pipe
Native American ritual
A sacred pipe is a ceremonial smoking implement used in many Indigenous North American traditions, particularly among Plains nations.
The pipe carries deep spiritual significance, used in prayer, ritual, and diplomatic contexts.
The term is often preferred by Native peoples over "peace pipe," which oversimplifies the object's religious meaning: The elder prepared the sacred pipe for the ceremony.
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- smokeAirborne combustion byproduct
- Native AmericanOriginal inhabitants of America
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
offering · four directions · great spirit · prayer · medicine · bowl · stem · eagle feather · sweetgrass · sage · cedar · vision · elder · circle · blessing · tradition · spirit · ancestor
- Indigenous cultureancestors, ancestry, ancestral lands, ancestral lineage, animal totems
- Native Folklorecreation myth, creation story, thunderbird, windigo, spirit animal
- native spiritualitymedicine man, native rituals, vision quest, sweat lodge, medicine men
- ritual objectscenser, altar cloth, brazier, chalice, crosier
- SiouxLakota, Dakota, Oglala, Sioux, Teton
- Blackfoot NationsBlackfeet, Treaty 7, sun dance, buffalo hunt, buffalo hunting
sacred pipecrack pipe
Freebase smoking implement
tobacco pipe · smoking pipe · drug paraphernalia · bong · hookah
sacred pipecommodity
Fungible traded good
trade goods · souvenir · collector's item · prop · counterfeit
sacred, sacredness, sacral, sacrament, sacramental, sacrosanct, consecrate, consecration, desecrate