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

A dark steatite pipe bowl with a stem connection that is angular in cross section and goes straight down. The bowl is round and connected to the stem via a cresent shape. The pipe bowl is carved from a single piece of steatite.

Compare with an example in the Brenthurst Collection at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (accession number JL-F-42) illustrated in Havran (1991, p 167, catalogue number 354). Compare with a number of pipe bowls in the smoking-pipe collection formed by William Bragge, now housed in the British Museum, for example Af,Cd.13. Reference: Havran, 1991

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
3.301
PLACE
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
steatite
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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