Surreal-esque Hand-stitched Seal Fur Wrapped Pipe, Presumed Inuit 1880s school Hanging down

Hanging down

enough to see a man in white climbing up into the stands

I'm sure I should know the names of the characters scratched into the lid on this c

but which is very much simpatico with the rest

1920s box to find it almost completely full of "Sterling" white chalk

Surreal-esque Hand-stitched Seal Fur Wrapped Pipe, Presumed Inuit 1880s school Hanging downWhen 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