pipe (narcotics & intoxicants: smoking)

A wooden pipe carved from a single piece with a bulbous bowl poisitioned on a circle of wood, from which the stem also comes off. The stem is tipped with a band of copper alloy. The sides are decorated with lead and the bowl is also lined with lead.
label: textile with black, ink handwriting

This tobacco smoking-pipe is carved out of a single piece of wood. The pipe appears to be missing its separable mouthpiece, which would have been inserted into the flanged end of the pipe-stem. Having had direct contact with its owner’s body, and therefore containing something of their spiritual essence, the mouthpiece would not have been parted with easily. Reference: Shaw, E.M, 1938, 221-251.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
4875
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 127 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; lead; copper alloy
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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