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1938.36.571

Bamboo tobacco pipe.


1938.36.571

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Collection type
Object
Description
Bamboo tobacco pipe.
Long description
A bamboo tobacco pipe stopped at one end with the chewed skin of areca-nut, while the other end remains completely open. The surface of the pipe is smooth and undecorated, with no dorsal hole present, suggesting it may have been used as a vessel to hold smoke rather than as the pipe directly smoked from.
Cultural groups
Anga
Date / Period
Date made: On or before 02/1937, uncertain
Date collected
February 1937
Acquisition information
Donated: 1938
Materials and processes
Material Bamboo Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Plugged, Process Incised
Dimensions
Length 420 mm, Diameter 47 mm middle
Object numbers
Accession number: 1938.36.571 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 571

Search terms: Narcotic, Technique, Pipe, Tobacco Accessory, Betel Accessory

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