Black pottery tobacco pipe with long wooden stem

Made:: 1900-1930 in Uganda

Black pottery tobacco pipe with long wooden stem
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Black pottery tobacco pipe with long wooden stem, bowl has finely incised decoration round rim, possibly Gandan made, Uganda, 1900-1930

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Category:: Smoking

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A301631

Materials:: pottery and stem, wood

Measurements:: bowl: height 37 mm
bowl, internal: diameter 25 mm
bowl, external: diameter 28 mm
overall: length 375 mm
stem: length 320 mm
stem: diameter 15 mm

type:: tobacco pipes

credit:: Christian Missionary Society

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Black pottery tobacco pipe with long wooden stem

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