tobacco pipe (pipe (narcotics & intoxicants: smoking))

Bamboo tobacco pipe. Stem of bamboo with very distinct nodules, curved more steeply towards bowl of pipe. A small piece of cream fabric has been wrapped around the mouthpiece and a larger red piece around the end which attaches to the bowl. The bowl is made from one piece of wood with darker circular markings in the rounded part; apparently a feature of the natural wood. On the outside of the bowl is a narrow, upwards projection ending a knob, which narrows towards the circular point at which is would be attcahed to the stem.
label: white with blue handwriting

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2006.226
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
pipe bowl: 54 mm x 85 mm x 36 mm; pipe stem: 225 mm x 69 mm x 27 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
textile; bamboo; copper alloy; wood
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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