Surreal-esque Hand-stitched Seal Fur Wrapped Pipe, Presumed Inuit folk art bottle Two studies of trees

Two studies of trees

and the little ones are each  approx

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

a sort of clownish servant

an artist who I believe worked and taught in North Carolina

Surreal-esque Hand-stitched Seal Fur Wrapped Pipe, Presumed Inuit folk art bottle Two studies of treesWhen 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