water pipe; hookah

Water pipe made of wood, which is incomplete. The water vessel is egg shaped with a conical base. The vessel has stripes of red, yellow, black and green and the top is decorated with silver and has an incised pattern that has reddish pigment in it. The stem is formed of a cylinder of wood with a shaped end. The wood has a strong grain and there is a band of red just below the shaped section. The mouthpiece is formed of a piece of wood with turned sections and tapers towards the tip. The mouthpiece has four bands of red.
label: old, brown label with the nn information on

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
19.5.48/249
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 342.9 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; pigment
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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