About Us
Dean “Little Lake” Johnson, a Taos Pueblo tribal member, is a renowned pipe maker and craftsman who has shown his “practical fine art” in numerous museums and galleries worldwide. For over thirty-five years, Little Lake has mastered his pipemaking and crafts unique designs representing a variety of animals and birds sacred to the Native American culture. He also crafts unique contemporary pipes and traditional Minnesota pipestone peace pipes.
Little Lake View was born in Southern California and moved to New Mexico in 1978 where he would be closer to his native roots and heritage.
Designed and Handmade
The pipe bowls are crafted using Minnesota pipestone, various alabasters, soapstones, and basalt. The stems are made from juniper-cedar which offers a truly unique cedar after-taste. Little Lake Peace Pipes are crafted to used, but are also a part of many private fine art and Native American art collections. Little Lake is a registered member of Taos Pueblo and all of his pipes are made at his home on the Pueblo where he lives with his daughter.
Little Lake Peace Pipes are available through his store, Smoke Signals, located in Old Town Albuquerque and online (Contact us for photos of current inventory). Custom orders are available.
“One of my relatives at Taos Pueblo showed me how to make a peace pipe using wood and stone indigenous to Northern New Mexico. After making my first peacepipe I realized that it was my calling and this was the spiritual path I was to follow.”
-Dean “Little Lake” Johnson
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Peace Pipes
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Smoke Signals
328 San Felipe NW. Albuquerque, NM 87401
Call Us
Business: 575-737-9227
Cell: 575-779-7760
Email Us
nativepeacepipes@aol.com dean@smokesignalstaos.com