Pipe made in four pieces. An iron bowl of bent and hammered iron sheet - decorated with spirals of iron wire. Two short wooden connectives and a long narrow iron tube as a mouth piece. The wooden connectives and the lower end of the mouthpiece are decorated with currency rings and one of the wooden connectives with a band of snake skin. A short spiker of iron is attached by a plaited cord. The mouthpiece is attached to the wooden 'connective' with snakeskin.
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