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What does pipestone mean?

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Noun
  1. A hard, red clay used by Native Americans for making tobacco pipes.
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Nineteen pieces of red stone identified as possible Barron County pipestone or Minnesota catlinite were found at the Fred Edwards site in Grant County.
After passing the pipestone falls, we entered country new to us, where the valley became much wider.
The most recent and public difference of opinion over sacredness occurred just this summer, and it concerned a substance called pipestone.
A few days later two solitary teepees stood on the shore of the pond, under the red cliffs of the pipestone Quarry.
A similar situation exists with the Mississippian figurines of flint clay that are often misidentified as bauxite or pipestone.
They are chiefly made of a soft stone something like the pipestone used by the present Indians which approaches soapstone.

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