Pipe

AF574

From: Kasai District | Belgian Congo

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number AF574
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Section African
Materials Copper | Wood | Tin | Plant Fiber
Description

Tobacco pipe with nicotine catcher; the bark in this is soaked with nicotine; is smoked when the owner runs short of tobacco.

Long wooden pipe with a nicotine catcher; brown in color; bulbous end with opening; a type of plant fiber is stuffed in this opening; the main part of body is cylindrical and wrapped with a thin piece of copper wire; this is found in two places; in between the two places is a flattened piece of tin wrapped around the body of the pipe; far end of pipe is rounded and protruding from this is a conical shape of copper used as the bowl; the end of copper protrudes from the base of bowl; connected to this and extending outwards is the front of a piece of a wooden elongated slab; this piece is decorated with four copper tacks down each side, with three down the front side.

Height 8.5 cm
Length 57 cm
Width 5.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912
Other Number 1560 - Other Number

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