This early pipe combines a raven and two human figures in a compact arrangement. The raven, a favorite subject of argillite carvers in the early period, dominates the composition. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven 1972)

Figures of women in the fashion of the day appear around the middle of the nineteenth century in panel pipe groups and as single figures. They are usually thought to represent white women, but some may depict Haida women in European dress which they were beginning to adopt at the time. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)