This panel pipe characteristic of the work of the mid-nineteenth century resembles the ship-motif pipes of the 1840s. The central element has lost its architectural character and has become a highly stylized decorative element pierced by the bowl of the pipe. Waves run the length of the base and a curious curly-haired dog with human arms and legs sits in the stern. Arching over the bow like a figurehead is a Yankee angel with long, curly hair, whiskers, and feathered wings. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

The rivet is copper.

The mountain goat horn handles of two-piece spoons usually retain the original form of the horn, a curved, tapered cylinder. This cylinder is attached with copper rivets to bowls of mountain sheep horn. The deep brown streaks in the sheep horn bowl are somewhat unusual in northern spoons, commonly made of the horn of the Dall sheep, which has a uniformly pale amber color. Elaborately sculptured spoons and ladles were reserved for formal occasions when the display of family myths and crests on their handles was appropriate. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

The paint is black and red.

Two pieces of mountain goat horn have been joined with a single copper rivet to form this old spoon. The figures carved on the handle appear to be a killer whale with a man's face on the dorsal fin, a raven, and a bear. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)