Smoking pipe

Museum number:
9-644
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Accession number:
Acc.650
Description:
tobacco pipe of silver-colored metal; small bowl, rounded stem with horizontal incised lines; Context of use: Rural woman’s pipe. Tiny bowl served to hold only a small pinch of fine-cut tobacco, enough only for only two or three whiffs; generally several pipefuls are smoked in succession. The lines on stem probably imitate grass. The stem-shape is a stylized peapod.
Donor:
Herbert Mason, William A. Setchell, and Ynes Mexia
Collection place:
Japan
Collector:
William A. Setchell
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pipes (smoking equipment)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1930
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1965-1966 #43: Division of Social Sciences, Chico State College (November 18, 1965–April 19, 1966)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Smoking pipe, accession number 9-644, described as tobacco pipe of silver-colored metal; small bowl, rounded stem with horizontal incised lines; Context of use: Rural woman’s pipe. Tiny bowl served to hold only a small pinch of fine-cut tobacco, enough only for only two or three whiffs; generally several pipefuls are smoked in succession. The lines on stem probably imitate grass. The stem-shape is a stylized peapod.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Smoking pipe, accession number 9-644, described as tobacco pipe of silver-colored metal; small bowl, rounded stem with horizontal incised lines; Context of use: Rural woman’s pipe. Tiny bowl served to hold only a small pinch of fine-cut tobacco, enough only for only two or three whiffs; generally several pipefuls are smoked in succession. The lines on stem probably imitate grass. The stem-shape is a stylized peapod.

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