Tlingit Wooden Eagle Claw Pipe Elk and work for a number

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

a compelling design and a unique form

and is accented by simplistic silver wire work that flanks the well executed stone inlaid Knifewing Dancer

This is a very striking polychrome lamp base by Joy Navasie (1919-2012) signed with her frog design

Tlingit Wooden Eagle Claw Pipe Elk and work for a numberThis 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