Smoking tube made from the shin bone of an animal

Made:: 1871-1910 in Africa

Smoking tube made from the shin bone of an animal
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Smoking tube made from the shin bone of an animal, bowl end bound with rough hide, double stem bore hole, wooden plug inside, Bushmen, Hottentot or Bergdama, South Africa, 1871-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655950

Materials:: bone, shin, hide, string and wood, plug

Measurements:: length 190 mm
bowl end, approx: diameter 40 mm
mouthpiece: width 21 mm

type:: smoking pipes

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Smoking tube made from the shin bone of an animal

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