Tlingit Wooden Eagle Claw Pipe Elk First half 20th C

First half 20th C

a good large basket for a collector

The basket was used but is in excellent condition

The print is signed on the bottom in script and printed in pencil on the bottom of the back "El Capitan" and "L

and work for a number of years in Phoenix Arizona as a full time silversmith at Vaughn and Fred Wilson’s Trading Post

Tlingit Wooden Eagle Claw Pipe Elk First half 20th CThis is a fabulous piece of Northwest Coast art made for the market. It is an eagle claw holding an object that hold the pipe. The pipe is a round piece of rusted metal which may or may not be cut from a gun barrel. The object, painted reddish brown has a circular pattern of brass tacks around each end. The four talons are painted a murky yellow and the rest of the claw is painted black. Other than 100 painted on the object being held and on the end