Green steatite tobacco pipe

Made:
1890-1920

Green steatite tobacco pipe, bowl only, probably from a Botswanan dakka pipe or water pipe, Botswana, 1890-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A659986
Materials:
steatite
Measurements:
length 75 mm
bowl: length 38 mm
bowl, external: diameter 37 mm
bowl apenture: diameter 18 mm
type:
tobacco pipe

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