A Haida argillite effigy clay pipe type 22cm.
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A Haida argillite effigy clay pipe type
The bowl in the form of the head of a ship's captain, with high collar and straight incised hair, the stem carved with two opposing seated figures, with an arched panel between them, wearing European costume with separately carved bone heads, 22cm.
Sold for £1,920 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Hilton Park, Clones, Co. Monaghan, 8th July 1985

    Literature:
    For a similar pipe with a single bone-headed figure with hands resting on an arch cf. Carol Sheehan, Pipes that won't smoke;coal that won't Burn, (Glenbow Museum 1981), p.151 no.40

Category: Ethnographic Art / Tribal

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