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Description: | Unusually, this smoking pipe maintains its mouthpiece.
A wooden pipe with coils of copper alloy along the stem and a dark metal decorating the bowl. The bowl is tall and thin and is lined with iron. The stem is also long and thin and has a broad band of undecorated iron halfway up. There is a string of beads looped near the mouth piece and attached to a wooden stopper that fits into the mouthpiece.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn6276 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | pipes (narcotics & intoxicants: smoking) bead wood metal string glass beads (round objects) Xhosa iron copper alloy Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-75536 | Go to resource |
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