拍品 142
142
SIBERIA
A FINE CHUKCHI PIPE, the wood body extensively inlaid with serrated circles and other geometric ornament in lead, the stem and broad rim of the bowl also of lead, the hollowed underside with skin covering

细节
A FINE CHUKCHI PIPE, the wood body extensively inlaid with serrated circles and other geometric ornament in lead, the stem and broad rim of the bowl also of lead, the hollowed underside with skin covering
26.5cm. long

拍品专文

These pipes were made in such a way that the stems could be opened in order to extract nicotine-rich tar deposits which were mixed with chewing tobacco

Cf. Fitzhugh and Crowell, 1988, p.235, no.315, for a less elaborate example