Pipe with wooden mouth-piece and black pottery bowl with incised pattern. The mouthpiece and bowl are detachable. [DCF Court Team 10/1/2003]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pipe with wooden mouth-piece and black pottery bowl with incised pattern. The mouthpiece and bowl are detachable. [DCF Court Team 10/1/2003]
Geographical reference: Uganda
Africa > Eastern Africa > Uganda
Cultural groups: Nkole
Person: Field collector John Roscoe; Field collector Mackie Ethnological Expedition; PRM source John Roscoe
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1920
Date collected: 1920
Acquisition information: Donated: 1921
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Wood Plant, Process Incised
Dimensions: Length: max 595 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1921.9.15
Associated publications: Rev. John Roscoe The Soul of Central Africa, A General Account of The Mackie Ethnological Expedition, London 1922. Balfour Library Reference : Africa 8 Also: Roscoe The Northern Bantu, Cambridge 1915. Balfour Library Africa 8 Illustrated in colour on page 65 of The Pitt Rivers Museum: A World Within, by Michael O’Hanlon (London: Scala, 2014). Caption (same page) reads: ’49 Giant pipe with pottery bowl, smoked by a spirit medium; included in the Museum’s typological display on smoking and stimulants. Nkole people, Uganda Length 595 mm Donated by Reverend J. Roscoe 1921.9.15’ [MJD (Verve) 19/2/2016]