Hair pipe

A hair pipe is a term for an elongated bead, more than 1.5 inches long, which are popular with American Indians, particularly from the Great Plains and Northwest Plateau.

White Eagle showed the trader a necklace made of the pipestems and asked if they could be ordered in bulk.

Frost in New York about producing tubular bone beads and within a year, he had enough hair pipe beads to sell to the Ponca as well as other Indian traders.

[1] Hair pipe beads were extremely popular from 1880–1910 and are still very common in powwow regalia today.

These beads are used in chokers, breast plates, earrings, and necklaces worn by women and men.