Tobacco pipe with bamboo tube stem and wooden pipe bowl. [CW [OPS Move] 25/10/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Tobacco pipe with bamboo tube stem and wooden pipe bowl. [CW [OPS Move] 25/10/2016]
Long description: Tobacco pipe with bamboo tube stem and wooden pipe bowl. The top of the bowl is circular with a cylindrical extension around which is fixed a copper alloy ring attached by a metal chain to the end of the stem. The bamboo stem is ornamented with designs cut into the surface. There are two bindings of woven cane work either side of where the pipe bowl is inserted. A length of thick copper alloy wire passes through two perforations at the bowl end of the stem and is turned down on each side along the stem, two further copper alloy wire bindings hold it in place. [CW [OPS Move] 25/10/2016]
Geographical reference: Malaysia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Malaysia; Sabah
Person: Field collector Harold Mease Lomas; PRM source Harold Mease Lomas
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1923 Date made: Probably by 1908
Date collected: By 1923 actually probably by 1908
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1923
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Bamboo Plant, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Pigment, Material Cane Plant, Process Carved, Process Stained, Process Plaited, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Depth: max 80 mm total, Width: max 65 mm total, Diameter: max 40 mm total, Length: max 394 mm total
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.78.1