Bamboo and reed tobacco pipe

Museum number:

11-14973

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Accession number:

Acc.2059

Description:

Pipe for tobacco (päip); bowl of cylindrical bamboo w/stem of miscanthus (alek) reed; 14 x 3.5 cm. Smoking was introduced by whalers in the pre-Spanish period (1850s)

Donor:

William Russell Bascom

Collection place:

Pohnpei Island, Senyavin Islands, Pohnpei State

Culture or time period:

Micronesian and Pohnpeian

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Pipes (smoking equipment)

Function:

5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories

Accession date:

1965

Department:

Oceania

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