Hair pipes

[Tom]

Here is a link to a neat article, mainly plains material but worth looking at.
I believe that early counter parts to this type of bead was found all over the southeast and are found in the sites throughout Va and NC.
www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/BAE/Bulletin164/tptoc.htm

[lynellarainhawk]

Tom,

Thank you for putting this up! I like reading about this sort of thing. I use both bone and horn hair pipes in some of my stuff. I'm getting ready to order some of the purple wompam (I'm certain I misspelled that, sorry) beads from Fire Mountain. I don't know as much about the shells as I would like to, but it seems they have good prices on these. Well, again thank you. Love & Light, Lynella.