Iñupiaq and Yup’ik artists from Alaska engraved these tobacco pipes with geometric designs and richly varied scenes. The pipe with the lead bowl features imagery relating to walrus hunting and a confrontation between a supernatural being and a man wielding a bow-and-arrow. The other pipe is adorned with a circle-and-dot pattern, a common Yup’ik design, and depicts a carved bird on the bowl and various sea creatures on the top. Artists began making pipes for both Native use and for trade or sale with non-Natives after tobacco became available through trade. Within Native communities, tobacco was a highly prized substance that likely first arrived in the 18th century through trade networks with Russians.