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

A pipe formed of two parts, the bowl with a long connection and a separate, wooden pipe stem. The bowl is made of several different metals, with the bowl a dark metal with simple bands of decoration. The stem connection that is atatched to the bowl, has several sections of more intricately decoration that is raised in parts; this is often in a white metal. At the end of the stem connection is a band of the white metal decoration and it concelas a section of pale wood that has been glued in place. The bowl is lined with a dark clay.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
27.232i
PLACE
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
clay; metal; wood; glue; silver
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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