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Description: | Tobacco smoking-pipe carved out of a single piece of wood, with spur at base of each of the two pipe-bowls. The pipe-bowls are metal-lined to protect the wood.This pipe appears to be missing its separable mouthpiece, which would have been inserted into the flanged end of the pipe-stem. Having had direct contact with its owner’s body, and therefore containing something of their spiritual essence, the mouthpiece would not have been parted with easily. See Shaw, 1938.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1971.426 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | pipes (narcotics & intoxicants: smoking) wood metal Xhosa iron Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-4994 | Go to resource |
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