Surreal-esque Hand-stitched Seal Fur Wrapped Pipe, Presumed Inuit 1880s school I'm sure I should know

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

From Lynda Roscoe Hartigan's Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Washington

or a tuna fish sandwich with chips

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

unfolding and revealing itself over the course of 360 degrees

Surreal-esque Hand-stitched Seal Fur Wrapped Pipe, Presumed Inuit 1880s school I'm sure I should knowWhen 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