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1933.40.3

Incised bamboo tobacco-pipe.

1933.40.3

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Collection type
Object
Description
Incised bamboo tobacco-pipe.
Long description
A relatively long bamboo pipe sealed at one end by the natural septa of the bamboo and left open at the other. It has a neatly drilled dorsal hole and is decorated with patterned bands running the entire length of the pipe. Five of the seven bands feature a tessellated diamond pattern, with the gaps between the diamonds filled with closely packed arrowhead-like incisions. One of the remaining bands consists of slanted rectangles, also filled with the same arrowhead motif, while the other is made up of closely spaced triangles similarly decorated with the arrowhead pattern.
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector Miss E.E. Gage-Brown
PRM source Miss E.E. Gage-Brown
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1933
Date collected
By 1933
Acquisition information
Donated: 1933
Materials and processes
Material Bamboo Plant, Process Incised
Dimensions
Length: max 470 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1933.40.3

Search terms: Narcotic, Pipe, Tobacco Accessory

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