smoking-pipe
- Museum number
- Am,S.220
- Description
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Effigy smoking pipe, carved into the form of either a frog or toad, made of cream coloured pipestone. Re-constucted from excavated fragments, the platfrom and lower legs of the effigy are missing. What survives is finely carved with a variety of deep and light incisions used to indicate limbs, face and mouth etc.
- Production date
- 200BC-400
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.20 centimetres
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Height: 3.80 centimetres
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Length: 6.70 centimetres
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Width: 3.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- A small diamond shaped label reads:"687"
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1931
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,S.220
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1931E1.220 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: 687 (Squier and Davis Original Collection Number)