A HAIDA ARGILLITE PIPE, the bowl carved as a head with finely incised coiffure, a carved rope about the rim continuing about the shoulder of a European figure with ivory head who stands behind leaning against the back of the bowl with his feet on the stem and holding an implement in his hands, two white metal bands about the stem, damages, circa 1850

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A HAIDA ARGILLITE PIPE, the bowl carved as a head with finely incised coiffure, a carved rope about the rim continuing about the shoulder of a European figure with ivory head who stands behind leaning against the back of the bowl with his feet on the stem and holding an implement in his hands, two white metal bands about the stem, damages, circa 1850
19cm. long

Lot Essay

Cf. Sheehan, 1981, p.150 and 151, nos.38 and 40

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