Pipe

Museum number:

9-357

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.617

Description:

Tobacco pipe; mottled bamboo stem, brass bowl-stem socket. Tiny bowl served to hold only a small pinch of fine-cut tobacco, enough for only two or three whiffs; generally several pipefuls are smoked in succession.

Donor:

Nina F. Sargent and Perry Lincoln Sargent

Collection place:

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, South Kanto

Collection date:

November 1926

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Pipes (smoking equipment)

Function:

5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories

Accession date:

1926

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

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