Pipe
AF555
From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF555 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bushongo | Bangongo |
| Provenience | Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood | Horn (animal part) |
| Description | Tobacco pipe; dark brown in color; stem of pipe is bent upward at the mouth piece end; cylindrical body; a long slender horn is used as a mouth piece; small opening at end; part of the stem is incised with a Nemo Kanya patter-triangular shaped forms of small raised squares and a zig-zag design; bowl is at bottom end of stem and has an hour glass shape, top is of bowl is taller then base. |
| Height | 8 cm |
| Length | 43 cm |
| Width | 4.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 500 - Other Number |
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