smoking-pipe(bowl)
- Museum number
- Af1954,23.1131
- Description
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Composite smoking pipe bowl; brass bowl fits into wooden stem socket which is decorated with lines of metal rivets and is supported on four metal legs. Two small iron knives and pair of tongs attached to pipe bowl by metal chains.
- Dimensions
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Height: 33 centimetres (knives and tongs suspended)
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Height: 12.50 centimetres
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Width: 8 centimetres
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Depth: 16 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attributed by P A Allison on registration to the Bassa Komo by comparison with Af1938,0402.15.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1954,23.1131
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 44227 (Wellcome Collection number)