Tobacco pipe with black pottery bowl and wooden stem.

Collection type: Object
Description: Tobacco pipe with black pottery bowl and wooden stem.
Long description: Tobacco pipe with black pottery bowl and wooden stem. The pipe stem has a band of burnt decoration. The top of the pipe stem is burnt. The pottery body of the pipe has a geometric design. [MJD 24/10/2014]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Benue Abinsi
Cultural groups: Tiv
Person: Field collector Roy Clive Abraham; PRM source Roy Clive Abraham
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1932
Date collected: By 1932
Acquisition information: Donated: 1932
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Burnt, Process Glazed
Dimensions: Width: max 46 mm, Height: max 245 mm, Length: max 325 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1932.36.2
Research and responses: Could this be Captain R. C. Abraham, author of ‘The Tiv people’ which was published on behalf of the Government of Nigeria by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1940? [CW 15/11/2000]

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