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| This unique human effigy pipe, known as "Lucifer" because of its satanic appearance, depicts a naked man with a larger-than-life head holding the head of a deer to the ground in his left hand and a fringed object in his right hand. The pipe is made of red flint clay from a source near St. Louis, Missouri not far from the great Mississippian center of Cahokia. Height 23 centimeters (9 inches). Courtesy Robert Bell and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma. |