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17. Spruce Root Cup & Saucer Tlingit Drinking cups made of twined spruce root were used by Tlingit people in the 1800s (see "Cooking with Basketry"), but cups and saucers like these were made solely for sale to tourists visiting Alaska.
The spruce root is natural and black. The grass is red and yellow.
The paint is black.
A human figure with the claws of a bear grasps the pipe bowl, large and barrel-shaped, between his knees and with his clawed hands. The somewhat flattened limbs and the planes of the face show formline influence. The pipe bowl has been lined and rimmed with sheet copper to protect the wood from the heat of the burning tobacco. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)