Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe

Made:: 1890-1924 in Sudan

maker:: Shilluk people

Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe, clay bowl in the form of a quadruped creature, possibly a dog or cat, female, long bamboo stem with gourd mouthpiece, Nilotic, Sudanese, 1890-1924

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A37567

Materials:: bowl, clay, stem, bamboo, stem, hide, moouthpiece, gourd and mouthpiece, leather

type:: tobacco pipes

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Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe

Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe, clay bowl in the form of a quadruped creature, possibly a dog or cat, female, Nilotic, Sudanese, 1890-1924. Originally with long bamboo stem with gourd mouthpiece

Materials:: bowl, clay

Object Number:: A37567/1

type:: tobacco pipe

Bamboo stem with gourd mouthpiece from ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe

Long bamboo stem with gourd mouthpiece, from ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe, clay bowl in the form of a quadruped creature, possibly a dog or cat, female, Nilotic, Sudanese, 1890-1924