The Pipe is made from koa wood, with a coconut shell chamber and a polished narwhale ivory stem.

Uncommonly perfect condition, especially given its age.

Owned by an young Hawaiian girl ca. 1650 (name unrecorded); acquired in trade by Sir Nigel Drury (1801); bequeathed to the Drake family collection (1848); purchased by anonymous collector (1902); sold to Kaimana Hikialani Kekoa (1941).

Steeped in Hawaiian lore, Kanaloa’s Pipe was supposedly gifted by the god himself to a young Hawaiian girl in ca. 1650. As the legend tells it, the girl freed a squid caught on a fisherman’s line, and later that night she was awakened by an 'alalā (a Hawaiian crow) rapping its beak on her door. True to Kanaloa’s nature as the god of the underworld, his Pipe allegedly grants a longer life to those who smoke from it.