Natural horn water or dakka pipe
- Made:
- 1880-1920
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Natural horn water or dakka pipe, barrel-shaped stone bowl, with incised diced design set on short cane stem which slots into hole in top of black horn reservoir, wooden stopper in mounthpiece, Bechuana type, thus possibly Bechuanaland, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A126819
- Materials:
- reservoir, horn, animal, reservoir, wood, bowl, stone, stem, cane and stopper, wood
- Measurements:
-
horn with stopper: length 265 mm
horn end: diameter 53 mm
horn mouthpiece: diameter 16 mm
overall, with bowl vertical: height 220 mm
bowl: height 85 mm
bowl: diameter 52 mm
bowl, aperture: diameter 23 mm
stem, overall: length 116 mm
- type:
- smoking pipes
- credit:
- Glendining