Bronze tobacco pipe

Made:: 1880-1920 in Cameroon

Bronze tobacco pipe, high circular bowl
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Bronze tobacco pipe, high circular bowl, ornately decorated with bands of concentric circles, bird applied to front of bowl its beak touching rim, tubular stem, Bali tribe, Cameroun, 1880-1920

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Category:: Smoking

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A162790

Materials:: bronze and mount, wood

Measurements:: bowl: height 115 mm
overall: length 363 mm
bowl, external, maximum: diameter 35 mm
bowl, aperture: diameter 35 mm
stem: diameter 26 mm

type:: tobacco pipes

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Bronze tobacco pipe

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