pipeclay
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When she handled them the white pipeclay came off on her gloves and jacket.

Ferris, a great believer in pipeclay and discipline, agreed wholeheartedly.

He had found fault with the pipeclay on four crossbelts and the straps of three muskets.

Pipeclay is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 165 km north of Brisbane.

His men looked contented, while Rennick and his Marines were a compact mass of pipeclay.

It is made of wires strung in an equilateral triangle on which are strung hollow pipeclay or ceramic tubes.

A pipeclay triangle is a piece of laboratory apparatus that is used to support items being heated by a bunsen burner or other heat source.

Three dozen Marines in heavy boots suddenly began running forward in a cloud of white pipeclay which their movement crumbled off their crossbelts.

Two Marines with drawn cutlasses marched into the cabin, the white pipeclay on their crossbelts a startling contrast to their polished black boots.

By the birth of their third child, they moved to a selection at Pipeclay (now Eurunderee) 8 kilometres north of Mudgee.

Earth pigments-or ochres-in red, yellow and black are used, also mineral oxides of iron and manganese and white pipeclay, or calcium carbonate.

Alfred Howitt claimed the proper name for the area around Bruthen was Murloo, meaning 'pipeclay'.

In 1888, gold was discovered and villages grew up around the mines at nearby Yowaka River and Pipeclay Creek.

In 1873 the Lawson family returned to Pipeclay, while the Slee family remained in Grenfell.

The lower division consists of pale-yellow, current-bedded sand and loam, with layers of pipeclay and occasional beds of flint pebbles.

He halted the two men, detached one amid a volley of orders and a cloud of pipeclay, and then marched the second Marine over to the larboard side.

Major Golightly had his troops formed up on deck as soon as there was light enough to see and Ramage watched them performing arms drill amid clouds of pipeclay.

Ramagethought of the boredom of twice daily parades when the Marines marched and countermarched, musket butts clattered amid showers of pipeclay and heels stamped.

Morning after morning, at the dawn inspection, Sergeant Lynch would find a speck of mud on Marriott's pipeclay and the Sergeant's voice would snap at the terrified man.

Catlinite (also called pipestone or pipeclay) is a type of argillite (metamorphosed mudstone), usually brownish-red in color, which occurs in a matrix of Sioux quartzite.

As the corporal bustled and shouted, the remaining Marines stamping and wheeling amid small clouds of pipeclay, Ramage walked aft to the taffrail and watched the Triton's wake.

The sentry was probably rigged out in working dress ten minutes ago, painting or helping with the rigging, and had hurriedly changed into uniform, careful not to knock the pipeclay off the crossbelts.

In the Mulbarapi clan wild dog ceremony, men danced with plain stripes painted down their legs, but they also had pipeclay stripes on their faces and dots on their chests.

From their position on the after part of the quarterdeck they had no benefit from the awning, but stood there in rigid pipeclay and scarlet perfection, their muskets and faces blazing in the sun.

Their red jackets were spotless, cross-belts stiff with pipeclay, brass buttons and buckles gleamed, their muskets immaculate, the metalwork looking oily but dry to the touch, the woodwork buffed to a high polish.

The Indians would take out a soft red rock called pipestone.

Archaeologists have discovered pipestone pipes thousands of miles from this area.

The Sioux lost control of the pipestone quarries in 1928.

There is also an orientation video about the history of the pipestone quarries.

Pipestone River is the name of several rivers in Canada.

The bowl was made of soapstone or red pipestone.

The city of Pipestone was founded in 1873.

Perhaps 1885 stuck out in his mind, when the countryside around the Pipestone had been almost completely deserted.

Scouts are required to complete the program for five years to earn the highest level Pipestone token.

The city is also the site of the Pipestone National Monument.

Access is by a gravel road leading 3 miles north of the Pipestone exit off I-90.

The township lies just outside the city of Pipestone, adjacent to the city's western and southwestern sides.

In 1879, 22 businesses were operating in Pipestone, and by the following year that number had grown to 53.

Pipestone was incorporated as a village in 1881.

Today only people of Native American ancestry are allowed to quarry the pipestone.

The stems are of sumac, redwood or, rarely, pipestone.

Demonstrations of pipestone carving offered April 1 to Oct. 31.

The name was later extended to Pipestone Township.

Lewis and Clark noted the pipestone quarry in their journals in 1805.

The objects included 136 smoking pipes made of catlinite or pipestone.

Pipestone Area High School does not require the study of a foreign language, although it is highly recommended.

Economically, they were involved in quarrying pipestone.

Pipestone Creek was named because Native Americans found material for making pipes along its course.

A spur would provide access to Pipestone National Monument.

Pipestone also set the record for Minnesota's highest temperature (108 F) on 4 occasions between 1930 and 1936.

Minerals such as catlinite and soapstone have also been used.

Only hand tools are used to reach the catlinite so it takes a long time to get to it.

The objects included 136 smoking pipes made of catlinite or pipestone.

Pipestone, also known as catlinite, is a soft red stone, revered for centuries by Indians.

Catlinite is indigenous to Minnesota.

The word "pipestone" refers to a red stone, known today as catlinite, which was used to make the bowls of Indian peace pipes.

Within the quartzite are deposits of catlinite, a softer mineral essential to many Native American groups to make calumets.

In human history, it provided the catlinite, or pipestone, that was used by the Plains Indians to carve ceremonial pipes.

The catlinite, or "pipestone", has been traditionally used to make ceremonial pipes, vitally important to traditional Plains Indian religious practices.

Argillite is similar to the substance known as catlinite which was used by the indigenous peoples of the American Plains to carve their ceremonial pipes.

He claimed to be the first white man to see the Minnesota pipestone quarries, and pipestone was named catlinite.

Seneca and other Iroquois carved small pendants with human faces, which were believed to be protective amulets, from bone, wood, and stone, including catlinite.

Sigstad, John S. (1970) "A Field Test for Catlinite".

The pipestone or catlinite from this quarry is softer than any other catlinite.

Trade by the ancient culture is suggested by the presence of catlinite pipe pieces both at the Franktown Cave and Roxborough sites.

Blue pipestone - Also a form of catlinite, blue pipestone is used almost predominantly by the Plains Tribes for ceremonial pipes.

Pipestone, Minnesota is the site of historic Native American quarries of catlinite, which is more commonly known as "pipestone".

The Plains hunting and warrior traditions are represented by an eagle feather war bonnet, weapons and a shield, as well as a number of carved catlinite pipe bowls.

Catlinite (also called pipestone or pipeclay) is a type of argillite (metamorphosed mudstone), usually brownish-red in color, which occurs in a matrix of Sioux quartzite.

The red catlinite from the Pipestone quarries is the second softest rock in the world, and it lies under Sioux quartzite, the second hardest rock in the world.

Red pipestone - Catlinite is an iron-rich, reddish, soft quartzite slate typically excavated from below groundwater level, as the stone erodes rapidly when exposed to the weather and outside air.

In the extreme southwest portion of the state, bedrock outcroppings of Sioux Quartzite are common, with less common interbedded outcrops of an associated metamorphosed mudstone named catlinite.

However, while catlinite is of a reddish brown color because of its high iron oxide content, argillite is a dark-grey to black color because of its higher carbon content.

The GE team used tungsten carbide anvils within a hydraulic press to squeeze the carbonaceous sample held in a catlinite container, the finished grit being squeezed out of the container into a gasket.

A common material for calumet pipe bowls is red pipestone or catlinite, a fine-grained easily-worked stone of a rich red color of the Coteau des Prairies, west of the Big Stone Lake in South Dakota.