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Private Collection, USA
Private Collection, Vancouver

The Haida were the first of the Northwest Coast First Nations peoples to develop art for trade and sale to the Europeans that arrived on their shores in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Some of the earliest objects produced were argillite pipe forms with Haida mythological figures, which a decade later evolved into elongated panel pipes with Euro-American figures and structures, such as this fine carving. These extraordinary and unique panel pipes were not actually intended for smoking tobacco, instead functioning as complex sculptural tableaux. Included were details of ships, forts, houses and cabins, which evidently fascinated the Haida carvers. This intriguing work includes ship structures such as the stylized cabin, a Euro-American man with a nautical spyglass telescope and a figure, likely a woman, with a dog. The pipe is finely carved, with expressive faces on both human figures and dog, and features decorative patterns and cross-hatching on the structural elements of the ship. Works such as this are rare to the market.

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