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Description: | A narghile, water pipe, consisting of a water-vessel, two stems and a bowl. The water vessel consists of polished coconut that has scallop edged brass mounts with a hole at the bottom and a short, cylindrical protrusion to one side. The bowl is made of burnished clay and has a plate shaped like petals, with bands of incised decoration including flower motifs. The rim of the bowl has diagonal incised lines. Both of the stems are decorated with yellow pigment with black animals, including bulls, foxes and rabbits, trees and human figures on horse back. One of the stems is long and cylindrical with a shaped end. The other stem has been turned and has a tapering mouthpiece. The stem also has black stripe decoration.
label: yellow with black type
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn15422
caption: General view of label of Horniman Museum object no nn15422 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | clay nut (plant material) wood coconut paper water pipes narghiles brass pigment Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-131773 | Go to resource |
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