Pipe Stem
AF1350A
From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF1350A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Lokele |
| Provenience | Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood | Copper | Plant Fiber | Gourd | Leather |
| Description | The mouth piece is the leather covered gourd; this is filled with palm fibre and catches the nicotine. Body of tobacco pipe; end towards mouth pieces is bulbous; body of piece is wrapped with a thin copper; there is a wider piece of metal wrapped around the far end; opening in mouth piece; wood is dark brown in color. |
| Height | 5.6 cm |
| Length | 34 cm |
| Width | 5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 12 - Other Number |
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