Surreal-esque Hand-stitched Seal Fur Wrapped Pipe, Presumed Inuit folk art bottle and the little ones are

and the little ones are each  approx

as well as making one want to sit up very straight and focused

an artist who I believe worked and taught in North Carolina

and I know pretty rare--and this set is really in excellent condition

black glass with gold and silver foil

Surreal-esque Hand-stitched Seal Fur Wrapped Pipe, Presumed Inuit folk art bottle and the little ones areWhen I spotted this one, I immediately saw it as a marriage between Meret Oppenheim's fur lined tea cup and Rene Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe; a very surrealist sort of object, and to my sensibilities quite a wonderful one. But with the fur being seal fur, I would presume it is in fact Inuit Alaskan Eskimo, and would guess the function of the fur was to make it easier to hold and pack the pipe in the cold, and also to make it personal to the