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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
Necklace of ten individual argillite plaques, varied slightly in size and shape, showing animal crest designs (grizzly, eagle, hawk, thunderbird, killer whale). Thin brown leather strip onto which they are strung is bound together at ends with purple thread. Each plaque has a description, place, date and artist signature incised into the back, e.g., "Haida Eagle Crest 69 Skidegate McGuire."
Carved, long argillite pipe. The body of the pipe is detailed with a human figure; the top of the bowl is position as if it was a headdress. On top of the body is a female figure sitting against the stem of the bowl facing the mouthpiece. In each of her hands she holds a leg of an octopus which has the rest of its legs in her mouth. The woman’s head is pulled back, her eyes shut. The octopus is facing left; has carved tentacles, eyes and beak.
Carved argillite pole with a slight taper and a concaved back mounted on a square base. From top to bottom: seal ? with spotted skin and protruding snout. Raven with a long beak and the wings tucked inwards; bear with a snout, carved nostril, bared teeth and protruding tongue holding onto three rings that sit on the head of a beaver. Beaver with two large front teeth holding onto a chewing stick. Its tail is turned upright and holds a human face.
Small, black, carved figure, depicting the head and upper body of a humanoid figure, with a tall fin-like protrusion on its head. The fin has further fin-like appendages on its sides. The figure's teeth are jagged. Mounted on rectangular base. Inscription on back: "Skidegate 69 McGuire".
A carved argillite model totem pole with a flat rectangular base. The figures on the pole, from bottom to top, include the following: a beaver, a raven with its beak tucked behind its own upturned tail, a human-like face, and an eagle.