Keeper of the Pipe

Elk Head and the Sacred Pipe Bundle 1907:  According to Lakota teachings and Divine Law the White Buffalo Calf Woman, acting as emissary of the Great Spirit, came to the people to bring knowledge to them on how to live and worship.  The palladium she left with them was the Sacred Calf Pipe given to Elk Head Red Hair, a member of the Sans Arc band, one of the first Keepers of the Sacred Pipe. He was the Keeper of the Pipe for 31 years,having received it the year following Custer fight in 1876.