Tobacco water pipe

Made:: 1850-1920 in Kinshasa

Tobacco water pipe
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Tobacco water pipe, gourd water reservoir with aperture for pottery bowl, stem of gourd and wood carved in anthropomorphic form, Baluba tribe, Congolese, 1850-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657987

Materials:: gourd, cane and bowl, pottery

Measurements:: height 500 mm
diameter 120 mm
bowl: height 41 mm
bowl: diameter 35 mm

type:: tobacco pipes

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