tobacco-pipe
- Museum number
- Oc,+.2483
- Description
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Tobacco pipe of bamboo with engraved ornamentation including an image of a canoe sail round the orifice.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1885)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5.70 centimetres
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Length: 70.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Christy collection registration slip description, written in 1885?:
New Guinea
Tobacco pipe of bamboo with engraved ornament; an oval panel with a cross on one side, vandyke pattern on the other. Round the orifice to hold the tobacco is engraved a native canoe ['lakatoi') sail.
Cat. No. 156. Pipe. Papuan Gulf
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Cracked
- Acquisition date
- 5 December 1885
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.2483
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1885C2.2483 (old CDMS no.)