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An elbow pipe with bone inlay and wooden and bone superstructures representing European houses, (some of the walls are missing). The design includes foliage and trees, the trunks of which appear to have been painted red. Inside one of the houses a piece of printed paper has been wrapped around the pipe bowl.; Good
Functional carved argillite pipe with three figures. The pipe is asymmetrical.The uppermost figure is a woman with a labret and possibly face painting, she merges with a raven beak and feather design. Adjoining the beak is a bear cub (?) with a fish in its mouth. The pipe bowl is carved into a face , possibly European (Gillian Crowther).; Good
Carved pipe with figures and boat design. The figures are possibly European due to the considerable detail in the carving of clothes and hair (Gillian Crowther).; Good
Elaborately carved pipe with human and animal figures. One human figure is wearing a European frock coat. Uppermost animal figure has some characteristics of a beaver, e.g. large incisors and cross-hatched tail, yet these are subverted , i.e. the incisors protrude from the lower jaw, and the animal has two tails. Equally the other two figures are nonsensical when compared to crest designs (Gillian Crowther).; Good
Intricately carved panel pipe with interlocking animal and human characters. Very hard to accurately identify individual creatures.; Good
Elaborately carved stone pipe. Although the catalogue card states, representing human and animal figures , there are no such figures. Rather the representations appear to be of pulleys, rope, and blocks and tackle from a ship' s rigging (G.Crowther); Good
Broken hook made from two bent pieces of wood lashed together with root. The barb is the sharpened end of one section of bent wood and is strengthened by a knotted cross piece of root. The hook has a length of rope tied to the lower arm which would have secured it to the weighted line. The lower arm tapers off into a small carving of a bird, possibly a raven.; Good
Three halibut hooks made from bent hemlock and lashing of spruce root. A) Has a bone barb, B) an iron barb, and C) a bone barb.; Good
Hook made from two bent pieces of wood lashed together with root. The barb is the sharpened end of one section of bent wood and is strengthened by a knotted cross piece of root. The hook has a length of rope tied to the lower arm together with a loose twist of bark twine.; Good
Commercially produced Robert Davidson print on a card in red and black on white background, depicting a bear design. The print illustrates a front view of the face, which has been split symmetrically down the centre. The face shows large, red nostrils and an open mouth with the teeth visible. In both top corners, there is a claw design with ' ovoid' socket. At bottom centre is a circular design, with thin yellow border, in very pale pink. It depicts, on smaller scale, same basic face design, but with protruding tongue. The silkscreen print the card is produced from is known as ' Bear Hugging the World' . Silkscreen prints are a recent development in Northwest Coast Native art, but they incorporate traditional design techniques and subject matter. The prints are often given away at potlatches as gifts from the host to the guests. Prints are also sold commercially to non-Native buyers. This card was designed by Robert Davidson, a Masset Haida artist. The design was taken from a silkscreen print, and used as an invitation to a Potlatch in Masset, hosted by the artist in October 1986. The card was only produced for this purpose, and represents a form of potlatch print; Complete