Wooden tobacco pipe
- Made:
- 1890-1925 in South Africa
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Wooden tobacco pipe, bowl carved in the form of a seated woman, head forms the stopper(?) (possibly not original), stem joins the bowl where woman's stern would be at acute angle, Zulu tribe, South Africa, 1890-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A158325
- Materials:
- wood, bowl lining, tin and decoration, glass, beads
- Measurements:
-
bowl: height 180 mm
bowl with stopper: height 222 mm
stem: length 230 mm
bowl aperture: diameter 21 mm
- type:
- tobacco pipes
- credit:
- Glendining
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