Indian Artifact Crafters PEACE PIPE STEM 2251a
Indian Artifact Crafters Peace Pipe Stem.
This Indian Artifact Crafters Peace Pipe Stem is the perfect thing for crafting your own hand made one of a kind Peace Pipe. This wooden pipe stem is for your traditional Native American Peace Pipe. This is perfect for showcasing your hand carved pipe bowls. This pipe stem is like a blank canvas, the possibilities are as limitless as your imagination. It is smokable and perfect for ceremonial peace pipe rituals. Non Indian made. This traditional Peace Pipe Stem is 17" long.
The Peace Pipe ceremony starts with filling the pipe with tobacco or red willow bark. It then commences with an acknowledgement of the four directions: East, South, West, and North. That is then followed by an acknowledgement of the Mother Earth, Father Sky, and Wakan Tanka. The Pipe Holder of the ceremony faces each direction as they are acknowledged, the pipe is then pointed downward during the acknowledgement of Mother Earth and at the moon or the sun during the acknowledgement of Father Sky. The stem of the peace pipe is then pointed skyward in the direction of Wakan Tanka at the center of the universe. The tobacco is then covered with sage. When the pipe is ready to be smoked the sage is removed and the pipe is passed around the circle. The smoke is symbolic of breath and life and often is not actually inhaled. The last person in the circle then finishes out the tobacco. The ashes are cleaned out of the bowl and then sprinkled to the ground as an offering to Mother Earth. That marks the end of the Peace Pipe ceremony. It is then usually followed up with a shared meal. |