Wooden straight or tube tobacco pipe

Wooden straight or tube tobacco pipe, trumpet shaped

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Wooden straight or tube tobacco pipe, trumpet shaped
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Wooden straight or tube tobacco pipe, trumpet shaped, the bowl being the flare of the trumpet which is closed with a stiff hide cover, leather covered with copper and brass coils, used also as a staff, Wyamba tribe(?), South Africa, 1880-1925

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A140109
Materials:
wood, leather, brass and copper
Measurements:
length 555 mm
bowl, external: diameter 50 mm
bowl, aperture: diameter 43 mm
stem: diameter 24 mm
type:
tobacco pipes
credit:
Glendining