Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe

Made:
1890-1924 in Sudan
maker:
Shilluk people

Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe, clay bowl in the form of a quadruped creature, possibly a dog or cat, female, long bamboo stem with gourd mouthpiece, Nilotic, Sudanese, 1890-1924

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A37567
Materials:
bowl, clay, stem, bamboo, stem, hide, moouthpiece, gourd and mouthpiece, leather
Measurements:
overall: height 660 mm
bowl: height 168 mm
bowl: length 150 mm
bowl: width 60 mm
stem: length 590 mm
stem: diameter 30 mm
mouthpiece: diameter 63 mm
type:
tobacco pipes

Parts

Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe

Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe

Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe, clay bowl in the form of a quadruped creature, possibly a dog or cat, female, Nilotic, Sudanese, 1890-1924. Originally with long bamboo stem with gourd mouthpiece

Materials:
bowl, clay
Object Number:
A37567/1
type:
tobacco pipe
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Bamboo stem with gourd mouthpiece from ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe

Bamboo stem with gourd mouthpiece from ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe

Long bamboo stem with gourd mouthpiece, from ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe, clay bowl in the form of a quadruped creature, possibly a dog or cat, female, Nilotic, Sudanese, 1890-1924

Materials:
bamboo , gourd , hide and leather
Object Number:
A37567/2
type:
tobacco pipe

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