Tobacco pipe with cylindrical bowl and tubular stem

Made:
1871-1920 in Sudan
Black pottery tobacco pipe

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Black pottery tobacco pipe
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Black pottery tobacco pipe, roughly cylindrical bowl tapering to circular heel, stem socket joins bowl at acute angle, tubular stem, wood, with fishskin cuff, Burun tribe, southern Sudan, Africa, 1871-1920

Details

Category:
Smoking
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A653312
Materials:
complete, pottery, wood and fishskin
Measurements:
overall: 330 mm
bowl, external: 38 mm,
stem: 22 mm,
bowl, aperture: 23 mm,
bowl: 81 mm
type:
tobacco pipe