An interesting adaptation of introduced materials is often seen in smoking pipes in which sections of musket barrels and pieces of gunstock wood have been combined to form the body and bowl. The bowl of this pipe has been cut from a standard trade musket barrel. The head of a bird, perhaps and eagle, is carved around the base of the bowl with stylized feet trailing behind toward the stem. Abalone shell has been inlaid in the eyes, mouth, and around the back of the head. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

The spruce root is natural, red, and dark purple. The grass is natural, yellow, red, and dark purple.