Sioux Indian with his pipe and the Great Mystery or “Wakantanka” a pipe ceremony. Photograph found here. ‎“The sacred woman then started to leave the lodge, but turning again to Standing Hollow Horn, she said: “Behold this pipe! Always remember how sacred it is, and treat it as such, for it will take you to the end. Remember, in me there are four ages. I am leaving now, but I shall look back on your people in every age, and at the end I shall return.” —Words of Pte San Win after bringing the sacred pipe to the Sioux. Taken from Frithjof Schoun, The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy (Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom Books, 1990) 
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Sioux Indian with his pipe and the Great Mystery or “Wakantanka” a pipe ceremony. Photograph found here.

‎“The sacred woman then started to leave the lodge, but turning again to Standing Hollow Horn, she said: “Behold this pipe! Always remember how sacred it is, and treat it as such, for it will take you to the end. Remember, in me there are four ages. I am leaving now, but I shall look back on your people in every age, and at the end I shall return.”

—Words of Pte San Win after bringing the sacred pipe to the Sioux. Taken from Frithjof Schoun, The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy (Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom Books, 1990) 

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